A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and...

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and...

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name...

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name...

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy....

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy....

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I...

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I...

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original...

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original...

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Madame Bovary is myself.

Madame Bovary is myself.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very...

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very...

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been...

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been...

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without...

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without...

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the...

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the...

Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them...

Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them...