“I have a religion, my own religion, and I even have more religion than all of them, with their mummery and hocus-pocus.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence,… — 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
