Gustave Flaubert Quotes


78 Gustave Flaubert quotes:



"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
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"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
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"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man"
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"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."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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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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"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough."
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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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"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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"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
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"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
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"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."
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"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."
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