flaubert Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about flaubert.
“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“The future is the worst thing about the present.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”
- Gustave Flaubert