Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -…
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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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Talent is long patience.
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It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective…
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Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to…
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
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I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of…
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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be…
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If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!
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Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.
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I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one…
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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