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Gustave Flaubert


French
December 12, 1821
Novelist
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.


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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.


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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.


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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.


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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.


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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.


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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.


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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!


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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.


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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.


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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
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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 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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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
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