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Gustave Flaubert

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VIRGINIA WOOLF Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought
STEPHEN KING The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
GEORGE VILLIERS I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.
GRAHAM PARKE The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
GEORGE VILLIERS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. FORESTER No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a di...
JOHN CONNOLLY We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their polici...
ABDOULAYE WADE We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
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FELIX SALTEN I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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NICHOLAS SPARKS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of ...
CONSTANCE PENLEY They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown ou...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKS In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a h...
MANUEL PUIG [The talks have helped clarify] what each party wants or must have in the basket and also what each ...
CHEN JIAN Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
ALBERTO MANGUEL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained...
THOMAS M. CIRIGNANO With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE He and I can finish each other's sentences. We're very aligned.
SCOTT MCNEALY Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and proph...
WALTER BENJAMIN The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object o...
KATHRYN HARRISON We don't delegate what each member does, they must reach out in their own ways.
TRACI DICKSON A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
VANCE B.. CHAN Each new book is a tremendous challenge.
PETER STRAUB This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.
AULIQ ICE The human spirit, like a campfire, must be lit again each day.
STEVE CHANDLER For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same r...
YVES KLEIN The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approac...
HEINRICH HEINE Legislators in each state must determine whether or not regulation is necessary to protect their con...
DON NORMAN It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who ...
NATHAN FILER Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to th...
GRAHAM JOYCE They're highly functional. But they protect each other from their problems. It's a garden-variety pr...
ANITA DIAMANT Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
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LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
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F. CALVIN PARKER People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
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TONY LA RUSSA Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragr...
VERA NAZARIAN The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. ...
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ROBERT HUGHES Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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PHILIP ROTH Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morpholo...
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with cour...
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NICK HARKAWAY But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have th...
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MARK ANDERSON Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
CORITA KENT Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive a...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion;...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like s...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
FLAUBERT Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
FLAUBERT Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAV FLAUBERT Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, t...
GUSTAVE MEYRINK I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
GUSTAVE MOREAU I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense ...
GUSTAVE COURBET No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
GUSTAVE MOREAU The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...
GUSTAVE COURBET Fine art is knowledge made visible.
GUSTAVE COURBET Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...
GUSTAVE COURBET I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET