Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

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  Read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Reading, Order

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

• Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Wisdom, Reading, Knowledge

• I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Reading, Writing

• I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Country, Reading, Character

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