The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“as though the soul’s abundance does not sometimes spill over in the most decrepit metaphors, since no one can ever give the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“...as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“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
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
![“[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to…” quote by Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/404/gustave-flaubert-354_bears_t-he-truth-is-that-fullness-of-soul-can_2711640.jpg)
