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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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“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man”
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“I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed”
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“How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.”
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“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
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“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois”
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“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity”
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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
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“The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.”
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“By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself”
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“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
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