Gustave Flaubert Quote

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"L'art d'écrire est l'art de découvrir ce que vous croyez"

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“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy”

Gustave Flaubert

“Pleasure is found first in anticipation later in memory.”

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in”

“Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry”

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