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Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Instead of getting drunk at the public, you’d do better to die yourself.”

451. “Instead of getting drunk at the public, you’d do better to die yourself.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “He sent him to bed in an unheated room and taught him to gulp down large amounts of rum and shout insults at church processions.”

452. “He sent him to bed in an unheated room and taught him to gulp down large amounts of rum and shout insults at church processions.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Well,” he said, “don’t you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest passions and the most violent satisfactions, and that way one stumbles into all sorts of whims, of follies.”

453. “Well,” he said, “don’t you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest passions and the most violent satisfactions, and that way one stumbles into all sorts of whims, of follies.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “But shouldn’t a man know everything, excel at a host of different activities, initiate you into the intensities of passion, the refinements of life, all its mysteries? Yet this man taught her nothing, knew nothing, wished for nothing. He thought she was happy; and she resented him for that settled calm, that ponderous serenity, that very happiness which she herself brought him.”

454. “But shouldn’t a man know everything, excel at a host of different activities, initiate you into the intensities of passion, the refinements of life, all its mysteries? Yet this man taught her nothing, knew nothing, wished for nothing. He thought she was happy; and she resented him for that settled calm, that ponderous serenity, that very happiness which she herself brought him.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “But what was making her so unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had overturned her life? And she lifted her head and looked around, as though seeking the cause of what hurt her so.”

455. “But what was making her so unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had overturned her life? And she lifted her head and looked around, as though seeking the cause of what hurt her so.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Alles eek haar gehuld in een zwart waas dat over het oppervlak van de dingen zweefde, en het verdriet trok zacht huilend door haar ziel, als de winterwind door een verlaten kasteel. Het was zo’n mijmeren waarin men verzinkt om wat nooit meer terugkomt, een matheid die ons telkens overvalt na een niet te herroepen daad, een smart ten slotte, veroorzaakt door het stokken van een vertrouwde beweging, door het abrupt stilvallen van een lang aangehouden trilling.”

456. “Alles eek haar gehuld in een zwart waas dat over het oppervlak van de dingen zweefde, en het verdriet trok zacht huilend door haar ziel, als de winterwind door een verlaten kasteel. Het was zo’n mijmeren waarin men verzinkt om wat nooit meer terugkomt, een matheid die ons telkens overvalt na een niet te herroepen daad, een smart ten slotte, veroorzaakt door het stokken van een vertrouwde beweging, door het abrupt stilvallen van een lang aangehouden trilling.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Why could she not lean on the balcony of a Swiss chalet or confine her sadness in a Scottish cottage, with a husband dressed in a long-skirted coat of black velvet, and sporting soft boots, a pointed hat and ruffled sleeves! Well may it have been her wish to confide all these things to someone. But how to express an indiscernible disquiet, which alters its shape like the clouds, which whirls like the wind? So she could not find the words, the opportunity, the boldness.”

457. “Why could she not lean on the balcony of a Swiss chalet or confine her sadness in a Scottish cottage, with a husband dressed in a long-skirted coat of black velvet, and sporting soft boots, a pointed hat and ruffled sleeves! Well may it have been her wish to confide all these things to someone. But how to express an indiscernible disquiet, which alters its shape like the clouds, which whirls like the wind? So she could not find the words, the opportunity, the boldness.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Un infini de passion peut tenir dans une minute.”

458. “Un infini de passion peut tenir dans une minute.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Whereas a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you into all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing.”

459. “Whereas a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you into all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Why don’t you go grind some almonds?”

460. “Why don’t you go grind some almonds?”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.”

461. “We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all.”

462. “It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The raging desire to come to a final conclusion is one the most deadly and sterile obsessions that belong to humanity. Every religion and philosophy has made claims to its own God, to have touched the infinite, to have discovered the recipe for happiness. What pride and what emptiness! To the contrary, I see that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works don’t come to final conclusions.”

463. “The raging desire to come to a final conclusion is one the most deadly and sterile obsessions that belong to humanity. Every religion and philosophy has made claims to its own God, to have touched the infinite, to have discovered the recipe for happiness. What pride and what emptiness! To the contrary, I see that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works don’t come to final conclusions.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.”

464. “All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “As a child I dreamt of love – as a young man of fame – as a man, of the tomb, that last love of those who have no love left.”

465. “As a child I dreamt of love – as a young man of fame – as a man, of the tomb, that last love of those who have no love left.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “For a week he was seen going to church in the evening. Monsieur Bournisien even paid him two or three visits, then gave him up. Moreover, the old fellow was growing intolerant, fanatic, said Homais. He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.”

466. “For a week he was seen going to church in the evening. Monsieur Bournisien even paid him two or three visits, then gave him up. Moreover, the old fellow was growing intolerant, fanatic, said Homais. He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Emma, who had taken his arm, bent lightly against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun’s disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.”

467. “Emma, who had taken his arm, bent lightly against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun’s disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.”

468. “Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Everybody can’t be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!”

469. “Everybody can’t be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “On his table he piled up humanists, philosophers, and poets. He went to the print room to look at the engravings of Marcantonio. He tried to understand Machiavelli. Gradually the soothing nature of the work calmed him. And delving into the personalities of others he forgot his own, which is perhaps the only way to avoid suffering from it.”

470. “On his table he piled up humanists, philosophers, and poets. He went to the print room to look at the engravings of Marcantonio. He tried to understand Machiavelli. Gradually the soothing nature of the work calmed him. And delving into the personalities of others he forgot his own, which is perhaps the only way to avoid suffering from it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!”

471. “Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Estomac. Toutes les maladies viennent de l’estomac6.”

472. “Estomac. Toutes les maladies viennent de l’estomac6.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The spelling mistakes were interwoven one with the other, and Emma followed the kindly thought that cackled right through it like a hen half hidden in the hedge of thorns.”

473. “The spelling mistakes were interwoven one with the other, and Emma followed the kindly thought that cackled right through it like a hen half hidden in the hedge of thorns.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “He ceased, looking round for an audience, for in his bubbling over the chemist had for a moment fancied himself in the midst of the town council. But the landlady no longer heeded him; she was listening to a distant rolling.”

474. “He ceased, looking round for an audience, for in his bubbling over the chemist had for a moment fancied himself in the midst of the town council. But the landlady no longer heeded him; she was listening to a distant rolling.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “AMBITION – Always preceded by “mad” when it lacks nobility.”

475. “AMBITION – Always preceded by “mad” when it lacks nobility.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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