Quote #94

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

More from Gustave Flaubert

  1. But there are moments when I feel I'm liquefying like an old Camembert, I'm so tired.
  2. My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.
  3. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
  4. The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
  5. Madame Bovary is myself.
  6. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
  7. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you
  8. The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

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