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Him Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He…
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic…
- He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.
- 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…
- What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
- She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
- For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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