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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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