Quote #93

But there are moments when I feel I'm liquefying like an old Camembert, I'm so tired.

More from Gustave Flaubert

  1. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
  2. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
  3. Madame Bovary is myself.
  4. My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.
  5. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you
  6. The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
  7. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
  8. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

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