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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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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!
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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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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
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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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Talent is a long patience.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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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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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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