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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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 like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
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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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Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.
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La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.
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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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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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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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The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
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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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Doesn't it seem to you, asked Madame Bovary, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
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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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