Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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 -
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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 -
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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 -
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT






