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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Mediocrity cherishes rules as for me, I hate them I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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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.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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