Gustave Flaubert

Puzzles

• One must always ___ when one is desperate, and doubt when one ___s.
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• The better a work is, the more it attracts ___; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
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• There is no truth. There is only ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Gustave Flaubert?

  • → A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
  • → Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
  • → To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
  • → Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Gustave Flaubert.

  • → To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
  • → Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
  • → What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
  • → Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Gustave Flaubert.

  • → The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
  • → Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
  • → We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
  • → I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Gustave Flaubert. Which one?

  • → Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
  • → Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
  • → It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
  • → Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Gustave Flaubert?

  • → A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
  • → Let the angry word be answered only with a kiss.
  • → To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
  • → Do not read as children do, to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do, to educate themselves. No, read to live.
  
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