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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist
Born: Dec 12, 1821
Died: May 8, 1880
Art Everything Life Nothing Work You
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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. Gustave Flaubert
Art Pride Too Much Too Gives Never Cult Much
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. Gustave Flaubert
Rule All The Facts Facts Disbelieve Which Use Theories
Exuberance is better than taste. Gustave Flaubert
Better Exuberance Than Taste
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. Gustave Flaubert
Art Good You Pure Style Bad Neither Seeing Absolute Point Could Point Of View Almost Nor Subject Subjects Itself Irrelevant Establish Being Manner View Things Axiom
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. Gustave Flaubert
Hate Made Though High Priests Call Been Decided Which Realism Even
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert
Art Faith Freedom Nothing Neither Politeness Nor Requires
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. Gustave Flaubert
Family Me Poet Must Priest He True Soon True Poet Leave His
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. Gustave Flaubert
Style Atrocious Only Stubbornness Devoted Effort Fanatical
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. Gustave Flaubert
Work Soul Words Style Much Flesh
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
Tired Others Possible Invented Know Greatest Got Traveling
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. Gustave Flaubert
Life Nature You Too Much Enjoy Too Monstrosity See Something Outside Badly Opinion Caught Up Artist In My Opinion Much Suffer
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