One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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 FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOf all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAll you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThrough small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT