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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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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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Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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