Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Exuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
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 -
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT