She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost." Flaubert's dictum for getting through life… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on… — 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
