Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

#Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact...

#Gustave Flaubert

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

#Gustave Flaubert

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

#Gustave Flaubert

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is myself.

#Gustave Flaubert