Quote #96

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

More from Gustave Flaubert

  1. My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.
  2. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
  3. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
  4. The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
  5. But there are moments when I feel I'm liquefying like an old Camembert, I'm so tired.
  6. 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…
  7. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
  8. There is no truth. There is only perception.

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