The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and all-powerful, one must sense him

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.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.