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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
— Gustave Flaubert
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
— Gustave Flaubert
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