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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

Gustave Flaubert

Food, Book, Home

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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Gustave Flaubert

Marriage, Want, Blame

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Gustave Flaubert

Art, Lying, Art Is

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

Gustave Flaubert

Compassion, Want, Kingdoms

1874 The Temptation of St Antony.

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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Gustave Flaubert

Dog, Writing, Literature

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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert

Love, Good Sense

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.88, Harvard University Press

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A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

Gustave Flaubert

Women, Struggle, Passion

Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

Gustave Flaubert

Way, Appraisal, Performances

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He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Gustave Flaubert

Believe, Men, Vanity

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But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

Gustave Flaubert

Passion, Space, Crowds

"Madame Bovary".

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She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

Gustave Flaubert

Sea, Storm, Here And There

Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful, Depression, Suicide

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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Gustave Flaubert

Dust, Egypt, Gleam

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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.

Gustave Flaubert

Birthday, Age, Today

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It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

Gustave Flaubert

Looks, Habit, Excellent

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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Gustave Flaubert

Sea, Three, World

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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

Gustave Flaubert

Book, Forests, Sentences

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.

Gustave Flaubert

Horse, Moving, Eye

"Scenes from a provincial life" by AS Byatt, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Gustave Flaubert

Effort, Style, Stubborn

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Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

Hands, Idols, Ties

Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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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.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel, Tired, Literature

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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

Gustave Flaubert

Dream, Funeral, Tombs

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Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Gustave Flaubert

Boredom, Goal, Principal

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Gustave Flaubert

Men, Feels, Pens

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He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.

Gustave Flaubert

Sweet, Book, Character

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Born: December 12, 1821
Died: May 8, 1880
Occupation: Writer
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