French literature Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““Desiderava al tempo stesso morire e vivere a Parigi.”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare French literature Gustave-flaubert Madame-bovary Time
“Deplangeam adultii ale caror saptamani serbede erau vag animate de niste duminici fade. Mi se parea ingrozitor sa traiesti fara sa astepti nimic de… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Fiindca toata lumea are o notiune exacta despre cum trebuie sa traiasca..” — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“Despenco em sono leve sobre a penumbra macia e aveludada, a qual vagarosamente me digere.” — Filipe Russo Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her so.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Many of them were familiar from childhood with the fables of La Fontaine. Or they had read Voltaire or Racine or Molière in English… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
