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All Quotes by author - Gustave Flaubert
" A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. "
Something
Death
Dies
" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "
True
Poetry
Geometry
" A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. "
Memory
Desire
Beautiful
" Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. "
Interesting
Enough
Long
" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "
Perfection
Art
Everything
" Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. "
Freedom
Faith
Art
" As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. "
All The Facts
Facts
Rule
" A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. "
Only
Man
I Am
" Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. "
Life
Your
Work
" 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. "
Love
Hands
Always
" 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. "
Life
Enjoy
Nature
" Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. "
Purpose
Live
Like
" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "
Geometry
You
True
" Exuberance is better than taste. "
Better
Exuberance
Taste
" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "
Happiness
Who
Those
" Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. "
True
Devil
Stupidity
" 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. "
Music
Speech
Stars
" I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. "
Feel
Pen
Am
" I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. "
Up
Wings
Believe
" I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. "
Priests
Been
Call
" 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. "
Everything
Only
Vanity
" I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. "
Born
Alone
Language
" I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. "
None
Above
Sense
" I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. "
Love
Belly
Work
" It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. "
Date
Back
Seems
" 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. "
Energy
Genius
Judge
" Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. "
Long
Dance
Stars
" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "
Constant
Dying
Education
" Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. "
Hope
Everything
Love
" Madame Bovary is myself. "
Myself
Madame
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