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Man Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
- A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be…
- A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
- A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
- I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
- Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
- 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…
- As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?…
- It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for…
- When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man…
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
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