There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThrough small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTNothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT