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From Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
- In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a…
- But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off…
- Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
- 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,…
- 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…
- What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp…
- The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
- What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the…
- He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy,…
- Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must…
- Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
- 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 I can see…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
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