She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.


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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Art, like the Jewish God, wallows in sacrifices. So tear yourself to pieces, mortify your flesh, rol...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
My soul has been haunted by something like those forgotten melodies that come back to us at twilight...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
When we entered a classroom we always tossed our caps on the floor, to free our hands; as soon as we...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Da bambino amavo ciò che si vede, da adolescente quello che si sente: da uomo, non amo più nulla.<...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and
soul, finally come...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Open them, weak yet proud man, pitiful ant that struggles to crawl over its
speck of dust! You ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, po...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals...
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
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