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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Exuberance is better than taste.

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Madame Bovary is myself.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

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