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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies,

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. – Gustave Flaubert

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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. – 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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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. – Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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