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Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

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 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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For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
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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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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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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
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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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[The artist] is like a pump he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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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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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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Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
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