I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
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 -
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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 -
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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 -
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT