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Gustave Flaubert: 'One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Read much, but not many books.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.'

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

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.'

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

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.'

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

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Gustave Flaubert: '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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Gustave Flaubert: 'What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.'

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Marcel Proust: 'No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.'

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Marcel Proust: 'What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.'

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