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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.
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Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Beautiful things spoil nothing.
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La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
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It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
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