French - Novelist | December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
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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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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