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Danh ngôn của Gustave Flaubert (Sứ mệnh: 9)

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Read in order to live.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
The future is the worst thing about the present.