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Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
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Doesn't it seem to you, asked Madame Bovary, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
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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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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
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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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Talent is a long patience.
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