A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. (Gustave Flaubert)

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Gustave Flaubert

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