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One Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
- Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective…
- 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…
- Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and…
- Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
- The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
- The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has…
- It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
- Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are…
- I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under…
- One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
- Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
- I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
- One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
- I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner…
- Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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