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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Flaubert
Becomes
Interesting
Anything
Look
Looks
Enough
Long

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
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DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
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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 must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Talent is a long patience.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
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