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I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed


Gustave Flaubert

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Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Irony takes nothing away from pathos.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive a...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion;...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like s...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
FLAUBERT Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
FLAUBERT Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAV FLAUBERT Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, t...
GUSTAVE MEYRINK I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
GUSTAVE MOREAU I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense ...
GUSTAVE COURBET No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
GUSTAVE MOREAU The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...
GUSTAVE COURBET Fine art is knowledge made visible.
GUSTAVE COURBET Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...
GUSTAVE COURBET I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET