Gustave Flaubert Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“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#Congratulations Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes
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“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
-- Gustave FlaubertSource : Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”
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“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
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“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
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“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
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“One'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.”
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“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
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“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
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“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
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“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”
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“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
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“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
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“Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.”
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“She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.”
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“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
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“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
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“I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.”
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“My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.”
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“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
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“What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!”
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“On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.”
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“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
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“The public wants work which flatters its illusions.”
-- Gustave Flaubert
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