Gustave Flaubert Quotes - Page 4

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• Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Literature, Ruins

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Courage, Brave, Excess

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “Salammbo”, p.98, Penguin UK

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• The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Literature, Way

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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

  Hands, Brain, Trying

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.38, e-artnow

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• What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Wind, Ideas

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• The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Literature, Mania

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• I have dreamed much and have done very little.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Done, Littles

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.29, e-artnow

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• 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

  Rain, Fall, Heart

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

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• The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

  Gustave Flaubert

  Infinity, Terror, Approach

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• Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

  Gustave Flaubert

  Boredom, Metaphor

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

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• 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

  Vanity, Literature, Conviction

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• The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Sea, Wade

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• 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

  Art, Men, Numbers

  Letter to Louise Colet, 14 June 1853

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• You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Writing, Creating

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• By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Trying

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press

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• I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

  Gustave Flaubert

  Speech, Feels, Fellows

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• Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Monstrosity

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• What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Moral

  Correspondence to Guy de Maupassant, October 26, 1880.

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• She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Paris, Wanted To Die, Wanted

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• I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Noble, World, Contemplation

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• 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

  Dream, Art, Ideas

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• 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

  Believe, Book, Judging

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• Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Hair, Shining

  "Author, author: The Slow Language Movement" by Nick Laird, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Poetry, Literature, May

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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