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Gustave Flaubert quotes: Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon. Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries. For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire. With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid. Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands. Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe. Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Isn't 'not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life? Isn't 'not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life?
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep. She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Write about daily life as you would write history. Write about daily life as you would write history.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker. As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Emma repeated to herself, "Good Heavens! Why did I marry? Emma repeated to herself, "Good Heavens! Why did I marry?
Gustave Flaubert quotes: To be simple is no small matter. To be simple is no small matter.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses. Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
Gustave Flaubert quotes: I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt. It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed! If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!
Gustave Flaubert quotes: 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. 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.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: His heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb. His heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Why, like all men," she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - "You are all evil! Why, like all men," she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - "You are all evil!
Gustave Flaubert quotes: In her desire, she confused the sensual pleasures of luxury with the joys of the heart, elegance of manner with delicacy of feeling. In her desire, she confused the sensual pleasures of luxury with the joys of the heart, elegance of manner with delicacy of feeling.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Read in oreder to live Read in oreder to live
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Talent is nothing but long patience. Talent is nothing but long patience.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: It is a wonderful thing, how no one will allow anyone to live as he likes. It is a wonderful thing, how no one will allow anyone to live as he likes.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write. What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Gustave Flaubert quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress. Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable. The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Exuberance is better than taste. Exuberance is better than taste.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us. In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body andsoul, finally come to an end? So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and
soul, finally come to an end?
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Prose is like hair; it shines with combing. Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: There was always an uncertain promise dangling in the future like a golden fruit hanging from some fantastic bough. There was always an uncertain promise dangling in the future like a golden fruit hanging from some fantastic bough.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him. He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Success as I see it is a result, not a goal. Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: What's improper about it?" retorted the clerk. "Everybody does it in Paris!" It was an irresistible and conclusive argument. What's improper about it?" retorted the clerk. "Everybody does it in Paris!" It was an irresistible and conclusive argument.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: ...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art. ...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else. It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household. Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Self-possession depends on its environment. Self-possession depends on its environment.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Surely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk. Surely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Talent is a long patience. Talent is a long patience.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it. Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life
Gustave Flaubert quotes: One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel! I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!
Gustave Flaubert quotes: It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet. Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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. 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: Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough. All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams. Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset. A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Sadness is a vice. Sadness is a vice.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again. Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions. Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible. Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads. Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The public wants work which flatters its illusions. The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea? The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea?
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: Writing is a dog's life, but the only one worth living. Writing is a dog's life, but the only one worth living.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror
Gustave Flaubert quotes: My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books. She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
Gustave Flaubert quotes: It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away. It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away.

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