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Gustave Flaubert Inspirational Quotes (171)

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I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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Beautiful things spoil nothing.
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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.
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I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter
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And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
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