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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes about happy

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
Gustave Flaubert quote: "One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women..."
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
Had they nothing else to say to each other? Yet their eyes were full of more serious statements; and while they sought for commonplace sentences, they each felt the same languor. It was like a murmur of the soul, profound and continuous, dominating that of the voices. Surprised at this unexpected sweetness, it did not occur to them to discuss the sensation or discover the cause. Future happiness, like tropical shores, projects over the vastness that precedes it, its innate indolence, and... Gustave Flaubert
Why was it? Who drove you to it?' She replied, 'It had to be, my dear!' 'Weren't you happy? Is it my fault? I did all I could!' 'Yes, that is true — you are good — you. Gustave Flaubert
He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think..."
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. Gustave Flaubert
It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. Gustave Flaubert

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