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Gustave Flaubert Quote: “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air – a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Tout ce qu’on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Sometimes I think I’m liquefying like an old Camembert.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Madame Bovary is myself.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The future is the worst thing about the present.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea – of an ideal.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “L’Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “I live absolutely like an oyster.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Mi amistad es como los camellos. En cuanto se pone en marcha ya no hay modo de detenerla.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Everything is there: the love of Art.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Everyone became brave from excess of terror.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “That is but the device of the devil to seduce the faithful more easily. He attacks the strong through the mind, the weak through the flesh.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Tutto finisce, tutto passa, l’acqua scorre e il cuore dimentica.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.”
Gustave Flaubert Quote: “It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness, what scratches others tears me to pieces.”
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