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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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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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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
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Talent is a long patience.
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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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The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
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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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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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