For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking. — 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
“Ah!" thought Rodolphe, turning very pale, "that was what she came for." At last he said with a calm air— "Dear madame,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on… — 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
“Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I zamišljali su život predan jedino ljubavi, dosta plodan da ispuni najopsežnije samoće, prevrši sve radosti, odoli svim nevoljama, u kojem bi… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned… — 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
“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. — 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
