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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”
“What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.”
“Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'”
“Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.”
“May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!”
“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
“We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!”
“Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”
“If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!”
“A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.”
“I have dreamed much and have done very little.”
“How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.”
“Beautiful things spoil nothing.”
“I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.”
“All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.”
“A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.”
“I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all”
“Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
“Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
“The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.”