Gustave Flaubert

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Gustave Flaubert

age

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

Gustave Flaubert

alone

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gustave Flaubert

art

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Gustave Flaubert

art

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

art

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

art

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.

Gustave Flaubert

art

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.

Gustave Flaubert

art

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

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

Gustave Flaubert

art

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