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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes

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

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But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, that she might make it less. What restrained her was, no doubt, idleness and fear, and a sense of shame also. She thought she had repulsed him too much, that the time was past, that all was lost. Then pride, the joy of being able to say to herself 'I am virtuous', and to look at herself in the glass taking resigned poses, consoled her a little for the sacrifice she believed she was making. Gustave Flaubert
[Hers] was an existence between heaven and earth... beyond her stretched as far as the eye could see... an immense space of joys and passions...[But] did not love, like flowers, need a special soil, a particular temperature? Sighs by moonlight, long embraces, tears cried into yielding hands...the fevers of the flesh and the langours of tenderness... Gustave Flaubert
Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it grew up here and there among ruins. She needed to derive from things a sort of personal gain; and she rejected as useless everything that did not contribute to the immediate gratification of her heart,? being by temperament more sentimental than artistic, in search of emotions and not landscapes. Gustave Flaubert
There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck like a child, an old man sat eating, drips of gravy drbibbling gravy from him lips. His eyes were bloodshot and he had a little pigtail tied up with a black ribbon. This was the Marquis' father-in-law... he had led a... Read more tumultuous life of debauchery and duelling, of wagers made and women abducted, had squandered his fortune and terrified his whole... Gustave Flaubert
Ah!" thought Rodolphe, turning very pale, "that was what she came for." At last he said with a calm ai? "Dear madame, I have not got them." He did not lie. If he had had them, he would, no doubt, have given them, although it is generally disagreeable to do such fine things: a demand for money being, of all the winds that blow upon love, the coldest and most destructive. Gustave Flaubert
He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none."
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue."
Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. Gustave Flaubert
His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all the more. Vivacious, effusive, and very loving in the early days, over the years she had, like a stale wine that turns to vinegar, grown ill-humoured, waspish, and nervy. Gustave Flaubert
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust? dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb..."
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its..."
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about..."
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an..."
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when..."
She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins. Gustave Flaubert

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