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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Talent is a long patience.
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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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And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.
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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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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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