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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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

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Gustave Flaubert quote: "Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be..."
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be..."
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. 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
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say. Gustave Flaubert
Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison. Gustave Flaubert
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? Gustave Flaubert
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe,..."
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Gustave Flaubert
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as..."
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is..."
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more..."
you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing! Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The public wants work which flatters its illusions."
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. Gustave Flaubert
But I have gone back to work; I try to intoxicate myself with ink, the way others intoxicate themselves with brandy, so as to forget the public disasters and my private sorrows. Gustave Flaubert

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