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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

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 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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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
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I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.
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I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
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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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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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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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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
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L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.
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As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
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