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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

~Gustave Flaubert

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

~Gustave Flaubert

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

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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.

~Gustave Flaubert

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Read much, but not many books.

~Gustave Flaubert

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

~Gustave Flaubert

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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.

~Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

~Gustave Flaubert

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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken 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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