Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would…

Gustave Flaubert
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world ✨ Gustave Flaubert (1991). Early Writings, p.34, U of Nebraska Press
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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 (1954). The Selected Letters
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

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