Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft. — 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
