The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

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

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

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the...

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the...

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

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...

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone...

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone...

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art,...

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art,...

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the...

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the...

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given...

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given...

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...

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent....

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent....

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock,...

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock,...

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.

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a...

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a...

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I...

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I...

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn ones living at...

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn ones living at...

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also...

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also...

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do...

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do...