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Schriftsteller (Frankreich, 1821 - 1880).

Gustave Flaubert · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Gustave Flaubert wäre heute 203 Jahre, 3 Monate, 22 Tage oder 74.257 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.12.1821 in Rouen
Gestorben am 08.05.1880 in Croisset/Rouen
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• Wüste: Inbegriff der Unendlichkeit - wo man nicht leben kann. Erzeugt Datteln. Ihr Schiff ist das Kamel.
  • Leben

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• Ziel aller Hochzeitsreisen. Italien! Italien! Führt zu zahlreichen Enttäuschungen, ist längst nicht so schön, wie immer behauptet wird.

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• Zirkel: Man muß auf alle Fälle einem angehören.

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• Zorn regt den Kreislauf an. Daher ist es gesund, sich von Zeit zu Zeit hineinzusteigern.

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• Zugeständnis: Niemals welche machen, sie waren der Untergang Ludwigs XVI.

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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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• Books are made not like children but like pyramids . . . and they're just as useless! and they stay in the desert! . . . Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

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• Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

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• From time to time, in the towns, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be going at a dizzy rate. We are dancing not on a volcano, but on the rotten seat of a latrine.

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• Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.

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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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• I am Madame Bovary.

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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• Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.

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• Prose was born yesterday-this is what we must tell ourselves. Poetry is pre-eminently the medium of past literatures. All the metrical combinations have been tried but nothing like this can be said of prose.

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• Read in order to live.

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• Style is life! It is the very life-blood of thought! Boileau was a little river, narrow, not very deep, but beautifully clear andwell embanked. That's why his waters never run dry.

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• Success is a result, not a goal.

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• Success may be a consequence of effort, but it should never be the goal.

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• The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

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