Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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Gustave Flaubert

Profession : Novelist

Birth : December 12, 1821

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Gustave Flaubert

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Gustave Flaubert

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Gustave Flaubert