Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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Gustave Flaubert

Profession : Novelist

Birth : December 12, 1821

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Gustave Flaubert

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

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

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

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Gustave Flaubert