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

~Gustave Flaubert

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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.

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

~Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

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

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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: December 12th, 1821

Died: May 8th, 1880

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