The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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 -
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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 -
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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 -
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Exuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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