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“Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”

Gustave Flaubert · Education

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Gustave Flaubert

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Loneliness

Gustave Flaubert

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Poetry

Gustave Flaubert

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Nature

Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Work