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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
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Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
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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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Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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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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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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Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.
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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.
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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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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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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Talent is a long patience.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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