Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. – Gustave Flaubert

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Winter
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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. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art
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Art
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A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw

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Art

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. – Paul Valéry

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Art

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. – Terri Guillemets

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Art

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Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job thats paying you a fortune but its not whats in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. – John Tesh

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Faith

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894

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Libraries

Quit not certainty for hope. – Proverb

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Hope

A bird doesnt sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. – Lou Holtz

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Nature