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Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- 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.
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
- The future is the worst thing about the present.
- The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
- There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
- There is no truth. There is only perception.
- 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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