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Which Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
- Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that…
- I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
- I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
- One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
- Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the…
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