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

Gustave Flaubert · Work

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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.

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Gustave Flaubert

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

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Gustave Flaubert

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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The future is the worst thing about the present.

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