The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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 -
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 -
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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 -
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 -
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT