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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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In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
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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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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
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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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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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