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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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After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
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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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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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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
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COLD. Healthier than heat.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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