Gustave FlaubertA collection of 36 posts

Work

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

Work

The better a work is the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who ru...

Work

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

Truth

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Success

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Poetry

All one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact ...

Poetry

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry

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

Nature

Caught up in life you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. Th...

Nature

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself aga...