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A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.
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Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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What an elder sees sitting the young can't see standing.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
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