Gustave Flaubert Quotes

• Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

  Gustave Flaubert

• What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

  Gustave Flaubert

• What an elder sees sitting; the young can’t see standing.

  Gustave Flaubert

• 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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• There is no truth. There is only perception.

  Gustave Flaubert

• 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

• The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The future is the worst thing about the present.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

• The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

• The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  Gustave Flaubert

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• The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

  Gustave Flaubert

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

  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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