“Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“I will write, as in the past, simply for the pleasure of writing, for myself alone, with no thought of money or fame. Apollo at least will be grateful to me, and perhaps at last I will produce something beautiful–for all things make way before the unceasing striving of an energetic sentiment.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when I am sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.”
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.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“The hand I burned and whose skin is shriveled like that of a mummy’s is less sensitive than the other to cold or heat. My soul isthe same; it passed through fire.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
Gustave Flaubert
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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.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
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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“Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.”
Gustave Flaubert
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