6 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert about inspirational
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe
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Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
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[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.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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