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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Gustave Flaubert

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: French
Born: December 12, 1821
Died: May 8, 1880

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Read much, but not many books.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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Read in order to live.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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Basis, Calls, Come, Conscience, Conviction, Everything, Finally, Firm, Inner, Only, Vanity

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Basis, Come, Conscience, Conviction, Everything, Finally, Firm, Inner, Only, Vanity