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Gustave Flaubert

"A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man."

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"A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man."

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

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