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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Resemblance
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Stir
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Forest
Forests

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
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Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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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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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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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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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
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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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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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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!
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The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
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