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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
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Entrepreneur
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Discipline
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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Everything is there: the love of Art.
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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
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I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.
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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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For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
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Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
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