Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT LifeOrderOriginalRegularViolenceWork
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT FavoriteMyselfWorld
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT BoundaryEarthHumanLimitationStupidity
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT InterestSeeSightYourself
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT DemocracyDreamsLevelRaiseStupidity
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ArtClumsyOccasionOrdinaryRevealWorld
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! GUSTAVE FLAUBERT BloodLifeStyleThinkingWriting
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT DoubtExhaustMyself
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT LevelLifeSeaWriting
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT EnoughInterestingYourself
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! GUSTAVE FLAUBERT CurrentheavyIdeasStrong
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT CorruptionHeartLoveNeedYourself
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 ChallengeDayFeelingGloryLifeMomentsPromiseRiseSuccess
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT AttackBreakHardNatureResistanceShakeStupidity
