Gustave Flaubert Quotes - Page 2

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• One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

  Gustave Flaubert

  I Hate You, Doe, Masters

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• The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Return, Knows

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Art, Bears, Done

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• It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Moving, Writing, Creating

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Art, Men, Soldier

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• Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Lying, Stupid, Conclusion

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Laughing

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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Respect, Hate, Soul

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• Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Interesting, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sleep, Doubt, Pillow

  Gustave Flaubert (2016). “Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life”, p.501, The Floating Press

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• COLD. Healthier than heat.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Heat, Cold

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Wisdom, Reading, Knowledge

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• 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

  Dance, Stars, Long

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• 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

  Writing, Giving, Wish

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  Read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Reading, Order

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

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• By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Running, Risk, Becoming

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• Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Drinking, Ocean, Writing

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• One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blood, Style, Literature

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• It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Relationship, People, Perfect

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• I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Believe, Thinking, Tranquility

  Gustave Flaubert, (Ivan Sergeevič) Turgenev (1985). “Flaubert and Turgenev, a Friendship in Letters: The Complete Correspondence”, Burns & Oates

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Men, Rumor

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ignorance, History, Literature

  Letter to George Sand, September 8, 1871.

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• 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

  Food, Hair, Floating

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