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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

~Gustave Flaubert

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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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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

~Gustave Flaubert

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

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The future is the worst thing about the present.

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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

~Gustave Flaubert

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: December 12th, 1821

Died: May 8th, 1880

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