Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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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, Blessing, Accomplishment

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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Truth, Perspective, Perception

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Morning, Afternoon

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• Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Gustave Flaubert (2012). “Madame Bovary”, p.15, Random House

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• Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupid, Literature, Unshakable

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• One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

  Gustave Flaubert

  I Hate You, Doe, Masters

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• I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Nature, Believe, Sky

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• It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sleep, Doubt, Pillow

  Gustave Flaubert (2016). “Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life”, p.501, The Floating Press

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• Talent is nothing but long patience.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Talent, Long Patience

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• The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Karma, Fathers Day, Soul

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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

  Happiness, Selfish, Stupid

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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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 Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

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• Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupidity, Earth, Limitless

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• All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Interesting, Looks

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• Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Memorable, Heart

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Success, Congratulations, Goal

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Gratitude, Kings, Ignorance

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• I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• To be simple is no small matter.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Simple, Matter

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

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• Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Memories, Firsts, Anticipation

  "Pay Now, Consume Later" by Dave Nussbaum,

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• There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Poetry

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• It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Relationship, People, Perfect

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• Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt, Madness, Illness

  Gustave Flaubert (2002). “Memoirs of a Madman”, Hesperus Press

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• I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Believe, Thinking, Tranquility

  Gustave Flaubert, (Ivan Sergeevič) Turgenev (1985). “Flaubert and Turgenev, a Friendship in Letters: The Complete Correspondence”, Burns & Oates

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