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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
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I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
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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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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Talent is a long patience.
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[The artist] is like a pump he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
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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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My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.
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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
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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 cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
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The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
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