The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert More Quotes by Gustave Flaubert More Quotes From Gustave Flaubert The future is the worst thing about the present. Gustave Flaubert worst-things worst My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science. Gustave Flaubert compassion kingdoms want Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. Gustave Flaubert passion beautiful book The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Gustave Flaubert Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. Gustave Flaubert ties idols hands What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment. Gustave Flaubert anger laughing art DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.) Gustave Flaubert daguerreotypes photography ideas I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. Gustave Flaubert good-sense love It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes. Gustave Flaubert horse eye moving For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. Gustave Flaubert stronger desire men They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely. Gustave Flaubert opinion advice book It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities. Gustave Flaubert personality memories past If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed! Gustave Flaubert ifs dream I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop. Gustave Flaubert aqueducts flow stories I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world. Gustave Flaubert contemplation noble world It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols. Gustave Flaubert excellent habit looks In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up. Gustave Flaubert creating views jobs The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror Gustave Flaubert terror approach infinity Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. Gustave Flaubert block strange people What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you. Gustave Flaubert nonsense glory fame
