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Honore de Balzac: 'Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.'

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Gustave Flaubert: '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.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Read much, but not many books.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.'

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Gustave Flaubert: 'It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.'

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