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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
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Flaubert
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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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For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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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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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
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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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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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