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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
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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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Everything is there: the love of Art.
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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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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.
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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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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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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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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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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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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
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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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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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