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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!
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What an elder sees sitting the young can't see standing.
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.
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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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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
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A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
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Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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