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Read in order to live.

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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

~Gustave Flaubert

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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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

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

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

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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.

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

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

~Gustave Flaubert

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: December 12th, 1821

Died: May 8th, 1880

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