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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 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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The cult of art gives pride one never has too much 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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After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
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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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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.
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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
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Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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