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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

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

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Gustave Flaubert
Life, Thinking, Two
Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Gustave Flaubert
Life, Glimpse, Aperture
"The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857".

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Gustave Flaubert
Life, Looks, Charm

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Gustave Flaubert
Life, Artist, Inspire

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