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Work Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- 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…
- Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- 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.
- I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
- 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.
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
- You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm…
- 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…
- The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
- When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man…
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