All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do… Creating
- We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means. Capacity
- My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. Backgrounds
- Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. Conclusion
- It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. Anything Exactly
- And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. Beholds
- On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. Art
- Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. Abstraction
- It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols. Excellent
- I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… Abyss
- What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. Awful
- As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few… Branches
- I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s… Aqueducts
- If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my… All
- The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. Into
- You don’t make art out of good intentions. Art
- The public wants work which flatters its illusions. Flatters
- As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?… All
- In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for… Always Looked
- I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. Believe