informer quotes

On fait de la critique quand on ne peut pas faire de l'art, de me"  me qu'on se met mouchard quand on ne peut pas e"  tre soldat. Someone 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.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet, 22 Oct.

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