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Things Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Beautiful things spoil nothing.
- I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
- [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…
- 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…
- (Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.
- 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?…
- She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had…
- Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to…
- Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
- She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a…
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