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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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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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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
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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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