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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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It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
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Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
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DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
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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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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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