French - Novelist | December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880
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.
Gustave Flaubert
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Read much, but not many books.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Madame Bovary is myself.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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