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Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), Madame Bovary
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), Madame Bovary
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

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