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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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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
Gustave Flaubert
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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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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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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
Gustave Flaubert
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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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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Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustave Flaubert
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave Flaubert
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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
Gustave Flaubert
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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Gustave Flaubert