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Talent is a long patience.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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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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One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
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Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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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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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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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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And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.
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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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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
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