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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
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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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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
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I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
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