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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
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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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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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