Gustave Flaubert's Quotes

Gustave Flaubert's Quotes 82

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a...

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is...

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the...

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original...

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

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

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life...

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for...

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success,...

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking...

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

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

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the...

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in...

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

You don't make art out of good intentions.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere...

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true,...

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