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French Novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. 1821-1880

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“Success is a result, not a goal”
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“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless”
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
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“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
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“The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible.”
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“She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances”
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“Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art”
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“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at”
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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.”
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“A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier”
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