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Gustave Flaubert Inspirational Quotes (171)

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A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
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Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.
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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
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[The artist] is like a pump he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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