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• Gustave Flaubert:

  The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days

• Gustave Flaubert:

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

• Gustave Flaubert:

  The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense hi

• Gustave Flaubert:

  There is no truth. There is only perception.

• Gustave Flaubert:

  You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of

• Gustave Flaubert:

  Exuberance is better than taste.

• Gustave Flaubert:

  Madame Bovary is myself.

• Gustave Flaubert:

  The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

• Gustave Flaubert:

  The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

• Gustave Flaubert:

  The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the