Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Gustave Flaubert

Related Quotes:

" The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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

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

Gustave Flaubert

" Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. "

Gustave Flaubert

" A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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

" 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

" 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

" I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

" One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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

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

Gustave Flaubert

" It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. "

Gustave Flaubert

" As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. "

Gustave Flaubert

" The future is the worst thing about the present. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. "

Gustave Flaubert

" One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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

" 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

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

Gustave Flaubert

" Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. "

Gustave Flaubert

" What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Exuberance is better than taste. "

Gustave Flaubert

" There is no truth. There is only perception. "

Gustave Flaubert