Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
Gustave Flaubert
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times
Read much, but not many books.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
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