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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence
“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
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“What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)
“Beautiful things spoil nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence
“A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.”
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
“The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.”