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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like th

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. – Gustave Flaubert

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money. – Proverb

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One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work. – Georgia OKeeffe

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People are not perfect… very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but theyve had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that. – Patricia Hewitt

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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We wont get a lot done in the mornings, but well work late and be honest. – Kinky Friedman

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