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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
“A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
“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.”
“A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.”
“One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”
“One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.”
“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
“The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.”
“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
