Gustave Flaubert
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
Gustave Flaubert
"Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."
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
"I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room"
Gustave Flaubert
"I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world"
Gustave Flaubert
"He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides"
Gustave Flaubert
"How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis."
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
"I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter"
Gustave Flaubert
"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"
Gustave Flaubert
"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
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
Gustave Flaubert
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
Gustave Flaubert
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
Gustave Flaubert
"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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