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Very Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -…
- I have dreamed much and have done very little.
- One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
- You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
- On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
- 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?…
- Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to…
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