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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Doubtis an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Doubtis an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if...

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if...

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything,...

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything,...

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 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...

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and...

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and...

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

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...

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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,...

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...

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of...

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of...

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful;...

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful;...

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with...

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with...

Madame Bovary is myself.

Madame Bovary is myself.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas...

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas...

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.