"Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres."
— Gustave Flaubert

January 1, 1970

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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876) (Correspondence v4, pg280)