"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

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Source : Gustave Flaubert (2012). “Madame Bovary”, p.15, Random House

Gustave Flaubert

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Work Quotes

“I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.”
“I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.”
“You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that.”
“Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true.”
“His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.”
“People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.”
“No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing”

Source : Derek Parfit (2013). “On What Matters: Volume Two”, p.624, Oxford University Press
“If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.”

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