Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

"The future is the worst thing about the present."
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"The future is the worst thing about the present."
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"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
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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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"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
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"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
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"Read in order to live."
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"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
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"There is no truth. There is only perception."
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"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
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"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
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"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
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"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
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