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Gustave Flaubert Inspirational Quotes (171)

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One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
Gustave Flaubert
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
Gustave Flaubert
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As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.
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La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech 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
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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
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There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
Gustave Flaubert
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Gustave Flaubert
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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.
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Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
Gustave Flaubert
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
Gustave Flaubert
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
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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
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We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
Gustave Flaubert
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
Gustave Flaubert
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Gustave Flaubert
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Gustave Flaubert
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