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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 detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!
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Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
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Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
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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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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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