A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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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.Gustave Flaubert
By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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