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Flaubert QUOTES

  • 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.

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

  • 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.



  • To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  • Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

  • Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  • The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

  • Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

  • One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

  • Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  • Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.


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