Quote #238
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in
a perpetual orgy.
-- Gustave Flaubert, 1858
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in
a perpetual orgy.
-- Gustave Flaubert, 1858
Related:
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Gustave... - One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a
stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert (letter to Madame Louise Colet, August... - A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a
suffering man.
Gustave... - Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original
in your work.
Gustave... - By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself.
Gustave... - The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level
of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave... - Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father.
In continuing one sees humiliation... - Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review,...
