"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
-Gustave Flaubert
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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.“
-Gustave Flaubert
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