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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes

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

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Gustave Flaubert quote: "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never..."
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my..."
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. Gustave Flaubert
...Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an..."
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The future is the worst thing about the present."
The future is the worst thing about the present. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of..."
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
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in..."
Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real."
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a..."
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. Gustave Flaubert
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about..."
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded."
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial Gustave Flaubert

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