#y

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#dies #friend #something #who #you

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #may #orderly #original #regular

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #beautiful thing #desire #memory #miss

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#becomes #enough #interesting #long #look

Madame Bovary is myself. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#myself

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poetry #precise #thing

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #hard #i #me #reign

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#much #soul #style #under #words

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#before #hamlet #never #play #played