Madame Bovary is myself.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

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Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And...

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And...

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

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

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but...

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but...

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as...

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...

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.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

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

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

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

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

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

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make...

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make...

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...

There is no truth. There is only perception.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears...

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was...

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was...

A great speech is literature.

A great speech is literature.