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Gustave Flaubert Inspirational Quotes (171)

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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
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Reveal art conceal the artist.
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Everything is there: the love of Art.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
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DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
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Doesn't it seem to you, asked Madame Bovary, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
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After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
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Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
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But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
Gustave Flaubert
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