All Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Gustave Flaubert
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
Gustave Flaubert
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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
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Gustave Flaubert
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Gustave Flaubert
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Gustave Flaubert
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