The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert
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More quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- 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.
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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