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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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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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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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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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Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
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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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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Talent is a long patience.
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