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His Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
- The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
- 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…
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