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What an unutterable catastrophe! The apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
She stood there, solemn, almost terrible, transfixing him with her great blazing eyes (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
You must not think that feeling is everything... Art is nothing without form (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in art and to count for nothing all the rest (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)