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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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert

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When youre around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, its not strange, its just Gaga. – Lady Gaga

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. – Giorgio Vasari

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One must work and dare if one really wants to live. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. – Dale Carnegie

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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. – Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

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