Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Gustave FlaubertTag: writing writers reader quality taste
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
Gustave FlaubertSo long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks!
Gustave FlaubertTag: literature
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it.
Gustave FlaubertTag: writing writers literature
Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.
Gustave FlaubertTag: creativity
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
Gustave FlaubertFinancial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.
Gustave FlaubertAn infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
Gustave FlaubertEvery notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
Gustave FlaubertTag: poets
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave FlaubertTag: writing naturalism realism
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