Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.” quote by Gustave Flaubert — Download Open image

“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”

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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from…

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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a…

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Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,…

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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

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COLD. Healthier than heat.

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