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"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."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is."
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"You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful."
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"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted."
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"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."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."
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"The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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"He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex."
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"Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling."
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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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"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
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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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"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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"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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"One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table."
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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."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust."
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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."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"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."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"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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"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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"On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters."
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"Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence."
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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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"Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel."
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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!"
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert