"Madame Bovary is myself." — Gustave Flaubert

"Madame Bovary is myself."

— Gustave Flaubert

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237 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert has 237 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up.…
Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river…
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an…
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in…
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
Talent is long patience.
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your…
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give…
Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran…
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit… — Margaret Atwood
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a… — Michael Dirda
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions… — Alberto Manguel
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless… — Gustave Flaubert
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense… — Michael Cunningham
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose… — John Updike
She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more… — Gustave Flaubert

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