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Gustave Flaubert quotes

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

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Gustave Flaubert quote: "Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money..."
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. Gustave Flaubert
The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. Gustave Flaubert
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to..."
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything Gustave Flaubert
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our..."
Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting. Gustave Flaubert
Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be? tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today... Gustave Flaubert
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that... Gustave Flaubert
But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering through the meadows, life twisting and turning and swirling through things, men living, doing good and evil, the sea rolling its waves and the sky with its expanse of lights, and who asks himself why these leaves are there, why the water flows, why life itself is such a terrible torrent plunging towards the boundless ocean of death in which it will lose itself, why men walk about, labor like ants, why... Gustave Flaubert
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and... Gustave Flaubert
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim. Gustave Flaubert
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. Gustave Flaubert
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything,..."
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Gustave Flaubert
And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors. Gustave Flaubert

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