Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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 -
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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 -
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT






