Gustave Flaubert Quotes - Page 2

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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Respect, Hate, Soul

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• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Anger, Laughing

  Gustave Flaubert (1953). “Selected letters”

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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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• We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Mean, Thinking, Laughing

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• The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The future is the worst thing about the present.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Worst, Worst Things

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

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• Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Interesting, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Karma, Fathers Day, Soul

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• The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Want, Flattery, Illusion

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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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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ignorance, History, Literature

  Letter to George Sand, September 8, 1871.

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• A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). “Intimate notebook, 1840-1841”

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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

  Dance, Stars, Long

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blood, Style, Literature

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• The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Literature, Way

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• By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Trying

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press

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• Exuberance is better than taste.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Enthusiasm, Taste, Exuberance

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.1193, Delphi Classics

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  Read in order to live.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Reading, Order

  Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”

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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.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Men, Rumor

  Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

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• Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ocean, Math, Boys

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• It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Return, Knows

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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