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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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Flaubert
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Geometry
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
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I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter
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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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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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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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And he beholds the moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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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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