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Gustave Flaubert quotes

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

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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
I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind. Gustave Flaubert
How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been spent in the dark back-room of a shop in some town, she would now perhaps have been kindled by the lyric surgings of nature which only normally reach us as through the interpretation of a writer. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the..."
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you..."
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. Gustave Flaubert
Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt their thoughts, hardly have they scribbled their ideas down on sheets of paper than the sheets are blown away; everything glitters and everything resounds in this masquerade, beneath its ephemeral royalties and its cardboard scepters, gold flows, wine cascades, cold debauchery lifts her skirts and jigs around…horror! horror! and then there hangs... Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Sadness is a vice."
Sadness is a vice. Gustave Flaubert
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky. Gustave Flaubert
Everyone, he thought, must have adored her; all men assuredly must have coveted her. She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this; he was seized with a lasting, furious desire for her, that inflamed his despair, and that was boudless, because it was now unrealisable. To please her, as if she were still living, he adopted her predilections, her ideas; he bought patent leather boots and took to wearing white cravats. He put cosmetics on his moustache, and, like her, signed notes of hand.... Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only..."
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. Gustave Flaubert
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. Gustave Flaubert
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more..."
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. Gustave Flaubert

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