Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
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My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.Gustave Flaubert
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Gustave Flaubert
Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Gustave Flaubert
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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