Gustave Flaubert quotes - page 3

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. (Gustave Flaubert)
To be simple is no small matter. View quote
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It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. View quote
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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. View quote
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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. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. View quote
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. View quote
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! View quote
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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. View quote
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. View quote
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. (Gustave Flaubert)
Doubt ... is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. View quote
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The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. View quote
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. View quote
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. View quote
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything. View quote
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There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me. View quote
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The future is the worst thing about the present. View quote
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! View quote
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. View quote
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. View quote
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The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror. View quote
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