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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

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. – Gustave Flaubert

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. – Elia Kazan

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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

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