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

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

— 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.”

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

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

— 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.”

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “So that was all love was! That was all a woman was! Good Lord, why do we still hunger even when we are sated? Why so many aspirations and so many disappointments? Why is man’s heart so big and life so small? There are days when even the love of the angels would not suffice it, and in a single hour it grows weary of all the caresses of earth.”

458. “So that was all love was! That was all a woman was! Good Lord, why do we still hunger even when we are sated? Why so many aspirations and so many disappointments? Why is man’s heart so big and life so small? There are days when even the love of the angels would not suffice it, and in a single hour it grows weary of all the caresses of earth.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The next day, for Emma, was funereal. Everything appeared to her shrouded in a black mist that hovered uncertainly over the surface of things, and grief plunged deep into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in an abandonded chateau. She sank into that kind of brooding which comes when you lose something forever, that lassitude you feel after every irreversible event, that pain you suffer when a habitual movement is interrupted, when a long-sustained vibration is suddenly broken off.”

459. “The next day, for Emma, was funereal. Everything appeared to her shrouded in a black mist that hovered uncertainly over the surface of things, and grief plunged deep into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in an abandonded chateau. She sank into that kind of brooding which comes when you lose something forever, that lassitude you feel after every irreversible event, that pain you suffer when a habitual movement is interrupted, when a long-sustained vibration is suddenly broken off.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The head-master made a.”

460. “The head-master made a.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Ascend skyward forever and forever,–yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below – there is no end.”

461. “Ascend skyward forever and forever,–yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below – there is no end.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “A blow lasts a minute but is anticipated for months – our passions are like volcanoes: always rumbling but only intermittently erupting.”

462. “A blow lasts a minute but is anticipated for months – our passions are like volcanoes: always rumbling but only intermittently erupting.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Then, the anxiety occasioned by her change of state, or perhaps a certain agitation caused by the presence of this man had sufficed to make her believe herself possessed at last of that wonderful passion which hitherto had hovered above her like a great bird of rosy plumage in the splendor of a poetic heaven... But she could hardly persuade herself that the quietness of her present life was the happiness of her dreams.”

463. “Then, the anxiety occasioned by her change of state, or perhaps a certain agitation caused by the presence of this man had sufficed to make her believe herself possessed at last of that wonderful passion which hitherto had hovered above her like a great bird of rosy plumage in the splendor of a poetic heaven... But she could hardly persuade herself that the quietness of her present life was the happiness of her dreams.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Her eyes, brimming with tears, glittered like flames seen through water.”

464. “Her eyes, brimming with tears, glittered like flames seen through water.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “One must not touch idols; the gilt rubs off on one’s hands.”

467. “One must not touch idols; the gilt rubs off on one’s hands.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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