I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

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

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

Madame Bovary is myself.

Madame Bovary is myself.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I...

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I...

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given...

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given...

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

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

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance...

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

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

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy....

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy....

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they...

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they...

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

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

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything,...

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything,...

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no...

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no...

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that...

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that...