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“ ”You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.
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Additional quotes by Gustave Flaubert
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women