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Best One Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
- 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…
- By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
- Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
- There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me
- Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
- Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?
- It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are…
- An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
- One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
- 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…
- 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…
- She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly…
- There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could…
- As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one…
- Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two…
- There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
- How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
- The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine!…
- … Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like…
- And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and…
- All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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