Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Exuberance is better than taste.

#Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the...

#Gustave Flaubert

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it...

#Gustave Flaubert

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and...

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

#Gustave Flaubert

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

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The future is the worst thing about the present.

#Gustave Flaubert

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

#Gustave Flaubert

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

#Gustave Flaubert

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

#Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas...

#Gustave Flaubert