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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it"
"There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities"
"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed"
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the ruins to which it clings"
"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal"
"Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living"
"Of all lies art is the least untrue"
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois"
"Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions"
"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in"
"Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry"
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"The better a work is the more it attracts criticism"
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe"
"Exuberance is better than taste"
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times"
"Read in order to live"
"The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft"
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars"
"A heart is a wealth that cannot be stolen"
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