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Gustave Flaubert Quote: “You!” she said in astonishment; “I thought you very light-hearted.” “Ah! yes. I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!”

451. “You!” she said in astonishment; “I thought you very light-hearted.” “Ah! yes. I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “El genio lo da Dios, pero el talento es cosa nuestra; con una inteligencia recta, amor a lo que se hace y una paciencia sin desfallecimientos, se llega a tenerlo.”

452. “El genio lo da Dios, pero el talento es cosa nuestra; con una inteligencia recta, amor a lo que se hace y una paciencia sin desfallecimientos, se llega a tenerlo.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Poor thing! She had loved him, after all.”

453. “Poor thing! She had loved him, after all.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “In de muziekles zong zij liedjes over niets dan engeltjes met gouden vleugels, madonna’s, meren, gondeliers: rimpelloze romances die haar tussen de beuzelachtige woorden en de onbeholpen klanken door een korte blik vergunden op de betoverende wereld van de werkelijke sentimenten.”

455. “In de muziekles zong zij liedjes over niets dan engeltjes met gouden vleugels, madonna’s, meren, gondeliers: rimpelloze romances die haar tussen de beuzelachtige woorden en de onbeholpen klanken door een korte blik vergunden op de betoverende wereld van de werkelijke sentimenten.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled.”

458. “The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “As a child I loved what can be seen, as a teenager what can be felt, as a man I no longer love anything.”

459. “As a child I loved what can be seen, as a teenager what can be felt, as a man I no longer love anything.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Their great love, in which she lived totally immersed, seemed to be subsiding around her, like the river sinking into its bed... and she could see the mud at the bottom.”

461. “Their great love, in which she lived totally immersed, seemed to be subsiding around her, like the river sinking into its bed... and she could see the mud at the bottom.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Sometimes your words come back to me like a distant echo, like the sound of a bell carried by the wind, and when I read love passages in. books, it seems to me that it is you about whom I am reading.”

462. “Sometimes your words come back to me like a distant echo, like the sound of a bell carried by the wind, and when I read love passages in. books, it seems to me that it is you about whom I am reading.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Thou, thou hast no pity save for thine own misery. It is like a remorse that gnaws thee, a savage madness that impels thee to repel the caress of a dog or to frown upon the smile of a child.”

464. “Thou, thou hast no pity save for thine own misery. It is like a remorse that gnaws thee, a savage madness that impels thee to repel the caress of a dog or to frown upon the smile of a child.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “A man, at any rate, is free. He can explore the passions and the continents, can surmount obstacles, reach out to the most distant joys. Whereas a woman is constantly thwarted. At once inert and pliant, she has to contend with both physical weakness and legal subordination. Her will is like the veil on her bonnet, fastened by a single string and quivering at every breeze that blows. Always there is a desire that impels and a convention that restrains.”

465. “A man, at any rate, is free. He can explore the passions and the continents, can surmount obstacles, reach out to the most distant joys. Whereas a woman is constantly thwarted. At once inert and pliant, she has to contend with both physical weakness and legal subordination. Her will is like the veil on her bonnet, fastened by a single string and quivering at every breeze that blows. Always there is a desire that impels and a convention that restrains.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Quote: “ART – Leads to the poorhouse. What’s the use of it, since we’re replacing it with machines that do better and work faster?”

466. “ART – Leads to the poorhouse. What’s the use of it, since we’re replacing it with machines that do better and work faster?”

— 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.”

467. “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

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