Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

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

#Art

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if...

#Happiness

Success is a result, not a goal

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In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like...

#Intelligence

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

#Love

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the...

#Money

She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a...

#Beauty

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

#Books

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

#Stupidity

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity...

#Stupidity

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent....

#Gustave Flaubert