“Happy are they who don’t doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph.” – Gustave Flaubert

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“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.” – Gustave Flaubert

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“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.” – Gustave Flaubert

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“A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier” – Gustave Flaubert

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“There is no truth. There is only perception.” – Gustave Flaubert

(Dedicated to someone very special in my life that is crazy about Flaubert; plus likes this pic…)