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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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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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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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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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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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The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!
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Beautiful things spoil nothing.
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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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And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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