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«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
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«Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
«The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft»
«Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.»
«The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.»
«The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.»
«What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.»
«I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all»
«Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
«Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert»
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