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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.”

Gustave Flaubert · Art

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Gustave Flaubert

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

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Gustave Flaubert

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

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Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

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Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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