French - Novelist | December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert
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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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Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
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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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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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