French - Novelist | December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
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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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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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