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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes

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

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But I have gone back to work; I try to intoxicate myself with ink, the way others intoxicate themselves with brandy, so as to forget the public disasters and my private sorrows. Gustave Flaubert
How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps. Gustave Flaubert
And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Read in order to live."
Read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature. Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a..."
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect,..."
But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference..."
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. Gustave Flaubert
...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean, tempest-torn, uncovering everything from the seaweed in the shallows to the sands of the abyss. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of..."
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all..."
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on..."
The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us..."
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. Gustave Flaubert

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