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"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work." Gustave Flaubert, Letter to Gertrude Tennant (Dec
by minikites 15y ago
"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
Gustave Flaubert, Letter to Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
- Drbble 15y agoThis is a wonderful apologia for the needy/homely lifestyle... conserving energy for something important. And the flipside of course: pity on the extravagant, wild, dress up and party lifestyle: a way to comfort yourself if you don't have anything deeply rewarding to do.