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Form isn't an overcoat flung over the fesh of thought (that old comparison, old in Flaubert's day), it's the flesh of thought itself. You can no more imagine an Idea without a Form than a Form without an Idea.
— Dec 28, 2023 03:03PM
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Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, jousting with his younger son, asked him to explain what literature was for. Gustave, turning the question back on his surgeon father, asked him to explain what the spleen was for: ‘You know nothing about it, and neither do I, except that it is as indispensable to our bodily organism as poetry is to our mental organism.’ Dr Flaubert was defeated.
— Dec 31, 2023 07:37AM
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Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t.
— Dec 31, 2023 07:13AM
Setayesh Dashti
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“'It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don't get horny enough actually to father them.” (Flaubert)
— Dec 22, 2023 05:01PM
