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Gustave Flaubert
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all i...
“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears t...
“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precis...
“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps...
“But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far...
“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns fr...
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the win...
“You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your t...
“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
“The public wants work which flatters its illusions.”
