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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I maintain that ideas are events. It is more difficult to make them interesting, I know, but if you fail the style is at fault.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
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The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen.
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