Flaubert

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“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)