All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Gustave Flaubert
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Gustave Flaubert
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It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Gustave Flaubert
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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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I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Gustave Flaubert
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
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One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
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