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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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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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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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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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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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There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
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What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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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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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
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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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What an elder sees sitting the young can't see standing.
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Mediocrity cherishes rules as for me, I hate them I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
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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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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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