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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Doesn't it seem to you, asked Madame Bovary, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
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For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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