Quote

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Loss
Friend
Dies
Death
Something

More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Image
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Mediocrity cherishes rules as for me, I hate them I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
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
Image
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Gustave Flaubert
Image
We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
COLD. Healthier than heat.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
Gustave Flaubert
Image
To be simple is no small matter.
Gustave Flaubert