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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it""The better a work is the more it attracts criticism""Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it""Exuberance is better than taste""Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times""Read in order to live""The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft""Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars""A heart is a wealth that cannot be stolen""There is no truth Only perception""The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy""Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work""Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live""Travel makes one modest You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world""The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe"