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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One mustn’t always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
To see one’s name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel (Gustave Flaubert Quotes)