Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
More Quotes from Gustave Flaubert:
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft
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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
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Read in order to live.
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In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.
Gustave Flaubert
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