Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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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. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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