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 FLAUBERTHuman 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 FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne’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 FLAUBERTOne can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOf all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT