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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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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
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The morality of art is in its very beauty.
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
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Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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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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It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
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The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
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The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
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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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Beautiful things spoil nothing.
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Mediocrity cherishes rules as for me, I hate them I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
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