Gustave Flaubert Quotes
78 Gustave Flaubert quotes:
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough."
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"There is no truth. There is only perception."
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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."
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"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
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"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
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"Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it."
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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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"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
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"Madame Bovary is myself."
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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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"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."
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". . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
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"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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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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"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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