More from Gustave Flaubert

  1. Madame Bovary is myself.
  2. But there are moments when I feel I'm liquefying like an old Camembert, I'm so tired.
  3. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you
  4. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
  5. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
  6. My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.
  7. Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
  8. The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

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