Gustave Flaubert
Quotations
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“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“There is no truth. There is only perception.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.” -Gustave Flaubert
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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.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” -Gustave Flaubert
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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
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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The future is the worst thing about the present.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.” -Gustave Flaubert
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert
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