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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
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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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[The artist] is like a pump he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.
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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
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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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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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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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Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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To be simple is no small matter.
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