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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.


Gustave Courbet

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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering throu...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT – Assim, nós – dizia ele –, por que nós nos conhecemos? Que acaso o quis? É que através da...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a f...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears ...
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE How oft the warmth of the sun above
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