Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
“Exuberance is better than taste.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)
“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.”
“What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: Early Writings
“One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!”
“The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”
“A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.”
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
Source: Letters
Source: Letters
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
Source: Madame Bovary - Interactive Bilingual Edition (English / French): A Classic of French Literature from the prolific French writer, known for Salammbô, Sentimental Education, Bouvard et Pécuchet, November and Three Tales
“I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.”
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”