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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
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My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.
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The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
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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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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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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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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
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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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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
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