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Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

Source/Notes: In French: "Un ami qui meurt c'est quelque chose de vous qui meurt." Source: "La correspondance de Flaubert", compiled by Charles Carlut, Ohio State University Press, 1968

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

Source/Notes: Mémoires d'un fou (1838)

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Gustave Flaubert

“A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.”

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”

- Gustave Flaubert

Source/Notes: Variant translation: "You have only to look at a thing long enough and it becomes interesting." - Letters (Philosophical Library, 1951), p. 29

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

“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.”

- Gustave Flaubert

Source/Notes: Madam Bovary, including a complete report of the trial of the author. Aboard the Cange. Novembre (1904 edition)

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Gustave Flaubert

“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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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

Source/Notes: Letter to Madame Louise Colet (August 14, 1853)

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Gustave Flaubert

“Exuberance is better than taste.”

- Gustave Flaubert

Source/Notes: L'Éducation sentimentale [Sentimental Education] (1869)

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