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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
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The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
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The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
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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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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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