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Gustave Flaubert: 'Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.'

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Gustave Flaubert: '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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Gustave Flaubert: 'Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.'

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Gustave Flaubert: '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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Gustave Flaubert: 'One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.'

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Gustave Flaubert: '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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Gustave Flaubert: 'There is no truth. There is only perception.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'Indolence is the sleep of the mind.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'One promises much, to avoid giving little.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'Prosperity makes few friends.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.'

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