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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes about beauty

French Novelist, Writer December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880

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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. Gustave Flaubert
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid. Gustave Flaubert
She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it;... Gustave Flaubert
Pellerin used to read every available book on aesthetics, in the hope of discovering the true theory of Beauty, for he was convinced that once he had found it he would be able to paint masterpieces. Gustave Flaubert
I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you..."
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. Gustave Flaubert
Everyone, he thought, must have adored her; all men assuredly must have coveted her. She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this; he was seized with a lasting, furious desire for her, that inflamed his despair, and that was boudless, because it was now unrealisable. To please her, as if she were still living, he adopted her predilections, her ideas; he bought patent leather boots and took to wearing white cravats. He put cosmetics on his moustache, and, like her, signed notes of hand.... Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only..."
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. Gustave Flaubert
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. Gustave Flaubert
Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest? disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. Gustave Flaubert
Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful..."
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an..."
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "What is the beautiful, if not the impossible."
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. Gustave Flaubert

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