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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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And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
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One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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Doesn't it seem to you, asked Madame Bovary, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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