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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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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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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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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Talent is a long patience.
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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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