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Gustave Flaubert: 'The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Exuberance is better than taste.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.'

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Gustave Flaubert: '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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Gustave Flaubert: 'Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Of all lies, art is the least untrue.'

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

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Read in order to live.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.'

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Luc de Clapiers: 'To possess taste, one must have some soul.'

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