1. ”It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.” ― Gustave Flaubert
2. “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” ― Gustave Flaubert
3. ”One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!” – Gustave Flaubert
4. ”One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.” ― Gustave Flaubert
5. ”What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.” ― Gustave Flaubert
6. ”The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.” ― Gustave Flaubert
7. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert
8. ”You’ll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that’s to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.” ― Gustave Flaubert
9. “There is no truth. There is only perception.” ― Gustave Flaubert
10. ”It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.” ― Gustave Flaubert
11. ”You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.” ― Gustave Flaubert
12. “The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” ― Gustave Flaubert
13. “Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.” ― Gustave Flaubert
14. ”To be simple is no small matter.” ― Gustave Flaubert
15. ”Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert
16. ”One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.” ― Gustave Flaubert
17. ”Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.” ― Gustave Flaubert
18. ”What an elder sees sitting; the young can’t see standing.” ― Gustave Flaubert
19. ”I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert
20. “One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.” ― Gustave Flaubert
21. “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” ― Gustave Flaubert
22. “Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.” ― Gustave Flaubert
23. ”The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.” ― Gustave Flaubert
24. ”You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.” ― Gustave Flaubert
25. ”Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.” ― Gustave Flaubert
26. ”Read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert
27. “Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.” ― Gustave Flaubert
28. “Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.” ― Gustave Flaubert
29. ”Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.” ― Gustave Flaubert
30. ”Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.” ― Gustave Flaubert
31. “The public wants work which flatters its illusions.” ― Gustave Flaubert
32. ”I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.” ― Gustave Flaubert
33. ”God is in the details.” ― Gustave Flaubert
34. “Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.” ― Gustave Flaubert
35. “An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.” ― Gustave Flaubert
36. “You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.” ― Gustave Flaubert
37. ”Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.” ― Gustave Flaubert
38. ”The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” ― Gustave Flaubert
39. “I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” ― Gustave Flaubert
40. ”Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea–of an ideal.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
41. ”One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.” ― Gustave Flaubert
42. “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert
43. “Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.” ― Gustave Flaubert
44. “One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” ― Gustave Flaubert
45. ”An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.” ― Gustave Flaubert
46. “By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream.” ― Gustave Flaubert
47. ”Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.” ― Gustave Flaubert
48. ”One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!” – Gustave Flaubert
49. ”Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?” – Gustave Flaubert
50. ”Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.” ― Gustave Flaubert
51. “One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” ― Gustave Flaubert
52. ”What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!” – Gustave Flaubert
53. “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.” ― Gustave Flaubert
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