Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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About Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.

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