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All Quotes by author - Gustave Flaubert

" A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. "

" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "

" A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. "

" Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. "

" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

" Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. "

" As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. "

" A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. "

" Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in 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. "

" 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. "

" Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. "

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

" Exuberance is better than taste. "

" Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. "

" Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. "

" 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. "

" I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. "

" I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. "

" I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. "

" 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. "

" I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. "

" I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. "

" I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. "

" It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

" Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. "

" Madame Bovary is myself. "

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