Gustave Flaubert Quotes
78 Gustave Flaubert quotes:
"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."
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French Novelist Quotes
"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."
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French Novelist Quotes
"The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen."
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"What is the beautiful, if not the impossible."
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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Art Quotes
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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
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Art Quotes
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"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois"
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Stupidity Quotes
"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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Enemies Quotes
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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Facts Quotes
"Success is a result, not a goal"
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Success Quotes
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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Poetry Quotes
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"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough."
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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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"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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Language Quotes
"There is no truth. There is only perception."
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Truth Quotes
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
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Inventions Quotes
"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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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
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"Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living."
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