Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThrough small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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 FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTReality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur 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