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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.
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Everything is there: the love of Art.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.
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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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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 have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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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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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
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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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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.
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