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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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Forest
Forests

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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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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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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.
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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
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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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Mediocrity cherishes rules as for me, I hate them I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
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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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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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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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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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