You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLove is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI 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 FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTMy foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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 FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT