35 quotes by Gustave Flaubert

“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“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

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“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The future is the worst thing about the present.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“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

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“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“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

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