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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

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century. — Gustave Flaubert

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

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. — 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

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

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

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. — 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

The more flowery a person's speech ... the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed. — Gustave Flaubert

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

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring. — 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

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

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

It's no easy business to be simple. — 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 passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias. — Flaubert

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely. — 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

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

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. — Gustave Flaubert

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

You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts. — Gustave Flaubert

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

In Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly: — Alain De Botton

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

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. — Julian Barnes

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. — Gustave Flaubert

I wouldn't mind a bit seeing all civilization crumble like a mason's scaffolding before the building was finished
— Gustave Flaubert

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

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning? — 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

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. — Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only one worth living. — Gustave Flaubert

Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost.
Flaubert's dictum for getting through life unscathed. — Gustave Flaubert

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions. — 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

There's a fundamental stupidity in mankind which is as eternal as life itself. — Gustave Flaubert

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

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

It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. — Gustave Flaubert

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

What's improper about it?" retorted the clerk. "Everybody does it in Paris!" It was an irresistible and conclusive argument. — Gustave Flaubert

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human. — Gustave Flaubert

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

One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life. — 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

Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic? — Julian Barnes

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

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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