Inspiring Quotes by Gustave Flaubert - Page 2

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"Madame Bovary is myself"

"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests"

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

"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force"

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs"

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly"

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

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

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