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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. — Gustave Flaubert

Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon. — Gustave Flaubert

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. — Gustave Flaubert

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. — Gustave Flaubert

When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'? — Gustave Flaubert

We aren't there yet,' said Bouvard.
Let's hope not,' said Pecuchet. — Gustave Flaubert

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

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands. — Gustave Flaubert

Sorrow rushed into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in abandoned manor houses. — Gustave Flaubert

Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

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

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. — Gustave Flaubert

Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place. — Flaubert Gustav Flaubert

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. — Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. — Gustave Flaubert

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker. — Gustave Flaubert

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

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. — Gustave Flaubert

The head-master made a — Gustave Flaubert

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. — Gustave Flaubert

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

This man, who was so experienced in love, couldn't distinguish the dissimilarity in the emotions, behind the similarity of the expressions. — Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it. — Gustave Flaubert

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses. — Gustave Flaubert

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. — Gustave Flaubert

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. — Gustave Flaubert

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. — Gustave Flaubert

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom — Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. — Roland Barthes

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream — Gustave Flaubert

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. — Gustave Flaubert

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. — Gustave Flaubert

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. — Gustave Flaubert

His heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb. — Gustave Flaubert

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage. — Gustave Flaubert

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. — Gustave Flaubert

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. — Gustave Flaubert

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex ... — Gustave Flaubert

Read in oreder to live — Gustave Flaubert

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful things spoil nothing. — Gustave Flaubert

My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert

And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it. — Gustave Flaubert

Doubt ... is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. — Gustave Flaubert

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. — Gustave Flaubert

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. — Gustave Flaubert

He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him. — Gustave Flaubert

Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft. — Gustave Flaubert

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. — Gustave Flaubert

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

How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love. — Gustave Flaubert

I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse's elite salon in Flaubert's Sentimental Education - a — Chris Kraus

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

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being. — Gustave Flaubert

Read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. — Gustave Flaubert

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

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. — Gustave Flaubert

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. — Gustave Flaubert

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. — Gustave Flaubert

If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move. — Gustave Flaubert

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

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. — Gustave Flaubert

I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life — 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. — Gustave Flaubert

Talent is long patience. — Gustave Flaubert

Let us intoxicate ourselves with ink , since we lack the nectar of the gods — Flaubert

COLD. Healthier than heat. — Gustave Flaubert

You must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing! — Gustave Flaubert

Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented? — Gustave Flaubert

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert

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

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. — Gustave Flaubert

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. — Gustave Flaubert

Those who were beginning to grow old had an air of youth, while there was something mature in the faces of the young. — Gustave Flaubert

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. — Gustave Flaubert

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. — Gustave Flaubert

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. — Gustave Flaubert

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert

Everything is there: the love of Art. — Gustave Flaubert

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. — Gustave Flaubert

Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young. — Gustave Flaubert

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible. — Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again. — Gustave Flaubert

Sadness is a vice. — Gustave Flaubert

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going. — Gustave Flaubert

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. — Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted. — Edna O'Brien

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