Gustave Flaubert Short Quotes

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Mercury. Kills the patient with the disease.

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Dissection. An outrage upon the majesty of death.

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I call a bourgeois anyone whose thinking is vulgar.

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Asp: Animal known through Cleopatra's basket of figs.

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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

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Our ignorance of history makes us slander our own times.

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What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don't you think?

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Isn't 'not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life?

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Body. If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.

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She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

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By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

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The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

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We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.

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

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Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

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Sea-sickness. To avoid, all you have to do is think of something else.

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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

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To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

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Alabaster. Its use is to describe the most beautiful parts of a woman's body.

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

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My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense for me to have desires.

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Cholera: You catch it from eating melons. The cure is lots of tea with rum in it.

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He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.

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One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

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A little science takes your religion from you; a great deal brings you back to it.

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Cerumen. Human wax. Should not be removed: it keeps insects from entering the ears.

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No one can ever state the exact measure of his needs, nor his ideas nor his sorrows.

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