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Gustave Flaubert

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

-Gustave Flaubert

age

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

-Gustave Flaubert

alone

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

-Gustave Flaubert

art

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

-Gustave Flaubert

art

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

-Gustave Flaubert

art

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

-Gustave Flaubert

art

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

-Gustave Flaubert

art

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

art

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

-Gustave Flaubert

art

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

-Gustave Flaubert

art

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

-Gustave Flaubert

communication

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

-Gustave Flaubert

death

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

-Gustave Flaubert

diet

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

-Gustave Flaubert

education

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

-Gustave Flaubert

faith

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

-Gustave Flaubert

family

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

-Gustave Flaubert

freedom

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

future

The future is the worst thing about the present.

-Gustave Flaubert

future

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

god

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

-Gustave Flaubert

happiness

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

-Gustave Flaubert

happiness

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

-Gustave Flaubert

happiness

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

-Gustave Flaubert

happiness

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

-Gustave Flaubert

health

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

-Gustave Flaubert

history

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

-Gustave Flaubert

hope

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

-Gustave Flaubert

hope

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

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

-Gustave Flaubert

love

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

-Gustave Flaubert

music

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

-Gustave Flaubert

nature

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

-Gustave Flaubert

nature

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

nature

Gustave Flaubert

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

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.

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

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

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

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

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

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

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.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

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.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

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.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

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.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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