More from Gustave Flaubert

  1. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you
  2. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
  3. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
  4. But there are moments when I feel I'm liquefying like an old Camembert, I'm so tired.
  5. Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
  6. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
  7. The wind blew very hard that day / And snatched her petticoat away!
  8. My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.

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