One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
(Letter to Louise Colet, 1846)
Gustave Flaubert
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!
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