black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Consequence Goal Success
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enough Interesting Yourself
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

Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
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

Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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

Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
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

Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Country Death Herself Live
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Illusion One Liner Public Work
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Interest See Sight Yourself
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Ordinary Small Tender
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gustave Flaubert Quotes