Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock,

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. – 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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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 draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. – Sheryl Crow

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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Im happiest with my family around me. – Amy Winehouse

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