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Gustave Flaubert

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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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."
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"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
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"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."
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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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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
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