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Everything is there: the love of Art.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
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Flaubert
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Love

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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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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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I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.
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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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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
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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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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
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Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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What an elder sees sitting the young can't see standing.
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