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Gustave Flaubert Inspirational Quotes (171)

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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Gustave Flaubert
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Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
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She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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What an elder sees sitting the young can't see standing.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
Gustave Flaubert
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