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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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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. – Martha Graham

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Every child is an artist, with imagination and the artistic instinct. Life stamps these out… – Percy Mackaye, 1915 lecture

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