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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
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Gustave 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
Emma repeated to herself, "Good Heavens! Why did I marry?
— 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
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
Our ignorance of history makes us vilify our own age.
— 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
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
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
How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. — Gustave Flaubert
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
He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.
— Gustave Flaubert
Read in order to live.
— 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
One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
— Gustave Flaubert
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
— 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
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
— 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
If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.
— 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
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
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
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
— Gustave Flaubert
Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young.
— 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
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
— Gustave Flaubert
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
— 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 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
Everything is there: the love of Art.
— Gustave Flaubert
Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
— Gustave Flaubert
COLD. Healthier than heat.
— 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
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
