Gustave Flaubert: "Writing is a dog’s life but the…"

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

Gustave Flaubert

“The better a work is the more it attracts criticism”

“It is not to weigh anchor that we must train masters.”

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

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