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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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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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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
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One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
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As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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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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A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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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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Beautiful things spoil nothing.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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