Gustave Flaubert ✓

(1821–1880) writer France

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[Wikipedia] Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy d

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All Gustave Flaubert Quotes

• Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. Funny
• I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. Been
• One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. Always Hope
• One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. Always Believe
• One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. Abyss
• Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. Flesh
• The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Author
• The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. Art
• The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. Beautiful
• The future is the worst thing about the present. Funny
• The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. Advances
• The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. Cassock
• You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm… Art
• Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch… Age
• Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity,… Artist
• There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the… Absolute
• There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it Bear
• The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Book
• Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. Effort
• One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes… Accept

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