Gustave Flaubert said this quote

“ Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. ”

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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

~ Gustave Flaubert

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

~ Gustave Flaubert