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• A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
  -- Gustave Flaube...
• Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
  -- Gustave Flaube...
• By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself. -- Gustave Flaube
• The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
  -- Gustave Flaube...
• Quote #238 "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
  -- Gustave Flaubert, 1858...
• Art lies in concealing art.
• One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
  -- Gustave Flaubert (letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 12, 1846)...
• I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without .
  . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily....