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Quotations by author » Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. 1821-1880 |
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| The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature. |
| Art |
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| The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible. |
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| The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. |
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| The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. |
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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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| The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft |
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| The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois |
| Democracy |
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| There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it |
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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. |
| Happiness |
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| What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. |
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| What is beautiful is moral; that is all there is to it. |
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| When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man |
| Laughter; Strength |
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| Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. |
| Writing |
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| 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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| You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form. |
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