Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
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