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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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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.
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Years passed and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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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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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
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After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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