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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes about thinking

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

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We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a nave sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep 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
Gustave Flaubert quote: "I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think..."
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a..."
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women Gustave Flaubert
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means. 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

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