Gustave Flaubert

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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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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

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Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul

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He had the vanity to believe men did not like him

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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins

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Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.

Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.

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At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night, when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out, I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once, one Christmas Eve, I saw a great naked women, standing erect, with rolling eyes; she must have been a hundred feet high, but along she drifted, growing ever longer and ever thinner, and finally fell apart, each limb remaining separate, with the head floating away first as the rest of her body continued to waver

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When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds

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Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

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With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady

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