Antiquity Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.”

Gustave Flaubert

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

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COLD. Healthier than heat.

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