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Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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