Quote #95
My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.
More from Gustave Flaubert
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
- But there are moments when I feel I'm liquefying like an old Camembert, I'm so tired.
- Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
- Madame Bovary is myself.
- 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 f…