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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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… 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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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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Talent is a long patience.
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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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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It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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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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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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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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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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