Gustave Flaubert Quotes

• I am as much Chinese as French.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• Your mania for sentences has dried up your heart.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

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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

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• God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

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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

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

  Gustave Flaubert

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• The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

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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

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

  Gustave Flaubert

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• The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

  Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert (109)

Birth:	12th December, 1821
Death:	8th May, 1880
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

About

Gustave Flaubert was an influential French writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary, for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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