Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Empty

Heart

Lines

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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Dust

Egypt

Gleam

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[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and 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.

Long

Soul

Stars

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[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

Artist

Inspirational

Lying

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

Death

Friend Died

Loss

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A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Lines

Prose

Should

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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Art

Men

Soldier

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A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

Passion

Struggle

Women

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A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss.

Beautiful

Memories

Missing You

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A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

Guarding

Riches

Wealth

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