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Explore more quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"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."

"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."

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
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"Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare."

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."

"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."

"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
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