Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sea, Storm, Here And There

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

• Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Speech, Amplify, Rolling

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.200, Penguin

• 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

  Art, Sacrifice, Order

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