Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

Gustave Flaubert
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  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller

  3. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo Da Vinci

  4. What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. - Deepak Chopra

  5. Anymore, no one's mind is their own. - Chuck Palahniuk

More Quotes By Gustave Flaubert
  1. It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

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

  3. Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

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

  5. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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