Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

"“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”"
115 Quotes
"“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”"
Gustave Flaubert
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
Gustave Flaubert
"The future is the worst thing about the present."
Gustave Flaubert
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
Gustave Flaubert
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
Gustave Flaubert
"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
Gustave Flaubert
"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."
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
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Gustave Flaubert
"Read in order to live."
Gustave Flaubert
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
Gustave Flaubert
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Gustave Flaubert
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Gustave Flaubert
"There is no truth. There is only perception."
Gustave Flaubert
"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
Gustave Flaubert
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Gustave Flaubert
"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
Gustave Flaubert
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
Gustave Flaubert
"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
Gustave Flaubert
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
Gustave Flaubert
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