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

~Gustave Flaubert

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

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

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

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

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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.

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

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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.

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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

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

~Gustave Flaubert

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: December 12th, 1821

Died: May 8th, 1880

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