Entry 48

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

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

Gustave Flaubert

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Gustave Flaubert

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert