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

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

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler

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In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. – Marc Chagall

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