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To be simple is no small matter.

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 true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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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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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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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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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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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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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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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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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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