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Gustave Flaubert

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.


— Gustave Flaubert


#good health #happiness #health #lacking #lost

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.


— Gustave Flaubert


#passion #time #space

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)


— Gustave Flaubert


#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.


— Gustave Flaubert


#books #literature #reading #literature

You don’t make art out of good intentions.


— Gustave Flaubert


#artists #creativity #writers #writing #art

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.


— Gustave Flaubert


#life

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.


— Gustave Flaubert


#vanity #men

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


— Gustave Flaubert


#anything #artists #attain #cannot #everything

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.


— Gustave Flaubert


#life #life

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.


— Gustave Flaubert


#authority






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Under this aspect Flaubert exercised an extraordinary influence over Guy de Maupassant Edmond de Goncourt Alphonse Daudet and Zola. His Œuvres Complètes (8 vols. Flaubert's lean and precise[citation needed] writing style has had a large influence on 20th century writers such as Franz Kafka and J.

Gustave Flaubert (French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first publiGustave Flaubertd novel Madame Bovary (1857) for his Correspondence and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.

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