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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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By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.
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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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 more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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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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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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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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