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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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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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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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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
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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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Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
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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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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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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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