QUOTES by Gustave Flaubert

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"My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid."
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"I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life"
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"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
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"Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer."
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"There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going."
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"Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex..."
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"… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!"
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"The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel."
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"Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature."
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"What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless."
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"As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop."
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"He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him."
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"Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art."
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"For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb."
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"Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence."
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"My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real."
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"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."
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"It was the fault of destiny!"
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"And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate."
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"Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams."
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"God is in the details."
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"It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols."
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"For her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart."
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"I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
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"(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust."
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"She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."
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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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"Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings."
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"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."
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"Read in order to live."
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"She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better."
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"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
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"To be simple is no small matter."

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"Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?"
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"Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance."
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"Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart."
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"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough."
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"Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears."
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"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."
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"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie."
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"Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"
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"Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?"
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"And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light."
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"Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue."
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"After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
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"What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love."
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"She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books."
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