Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubertwas an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary, for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 December 1821
CityRouen, France
CountryFrance
Gustave Flaubert quotes about
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.
If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
Madame Bovary is myself.
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.
For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides