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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880

Topics

Vanity Everything Conscience Come

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Life Time I Am Me Writing Know

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

Life Children School Dancing Gone

You don't want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don't want to show stuff nobody is going to wear.

Michael Bastian

You Nobody Want Boring Presentation

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

Way Up Own Wrapped Should Very

First of all, at any company, the investment in research and development in the products is the lifeblood, so that is a critical element of anyone's future going forward.

Future Research Forward Investment

I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.

Great Year House Wonder Sometimes

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Vacation Insurance Unemployment

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

Life Faith Man Sacrifice Human Core

Unfortunately, I am not the typical, old-school, 'Yes dear, you're right,' just to get out of a situation. I am more of the type to work it out until you think I'm right or I think you're right.

Jason Winston George

Work I Am Think You Situation Right

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Powerful Early My Own More Own Made

The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

Technology Time Right Time Play Mark

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

Me Bad Boring Believable Sake

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