One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
(Letter to Louise Colet, 1852)

Gustave Flaubert

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One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Gustave Flaubert (Letter to Louise Colet, 1846)

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

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If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary, 1856)

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