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In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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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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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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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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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
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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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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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