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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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 principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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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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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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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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… 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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