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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Life, Work

Gustave Flaubert (2012). “Madame Bovary”, p.15, Random House

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Life, Wise

Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Life, Poetry

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

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Life, Art

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

"Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Men, Rumor

Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

Gustave Flaubert

Inspirational, Lying, Artist

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.189, Harvard University Press