Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
-
-
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 -
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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 -
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
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 -
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT -
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT






