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Some 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…
- But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use…
- Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are…
- I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go…
- 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.
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