Gustave Flaubert
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[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, p.189, Harvard University Press

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