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• Of all lies, art is the least untrue. -- Gustave Flaube
• 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)...
• 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...
• Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
• Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review, 1827...