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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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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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… 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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By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.
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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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But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
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