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Reveal art conceal the artist.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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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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L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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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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