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• The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Literature, Sticks

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• One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Believe, Feelings

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• The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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• The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Father, Son, Aggravation

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, December 11, 1852.

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• You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heaven, Being Lied, Goodness

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• Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Reality, Doe, Conformity

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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.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Views, Style

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• A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Men, Order

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• For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Princess, Passion, Rotary

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• Everything is there: the love of Art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Artist

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• In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Jobs, Views, Creating

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• The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Visible, Fiction Writers, Universe

  Gustave Flaubert (2009). “Madame Bovary”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Marriage, Want, Blame

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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• That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Drinking, Men, Rivers

  Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

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• Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Years, Inertia

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• It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Travel, Voyages, Return

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• The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Philosophy, Design, Humanity

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• Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Children, Giving, Sugar

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• There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Bridges, Crosses

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• One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Looks, Charm

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• A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Women, Struggle, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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• As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Piano, Keyboards

  Gustave Flaubert (1964). “Madame Bovary”

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• You don’t make art out of good intentions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Good Intentions, Intention

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• As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Might, Curse, Turns

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• Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Forests, Sentences

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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