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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

You should divide your existence into two parts: live like a bourgeois, and think like a demigod.[Qu’il faut faire dans son existence deux parts: vivre en bourgeois et penser en demi-dieu.]

Source:Letter to Louise Colet (August 21, 1853), The Letter of Gustave Flaubert (1830-1857), (ed. 1980), Page 197
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  • Born: December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880
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