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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
“Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.”
“Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.”
“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.”
“Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.”
“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”
“By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream”
“God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world”
“He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides”
“The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror”
“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”
“There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more”
“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”
“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?”
“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
“But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.”