Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: writing writers reader quality taste



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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: travel tourism



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So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks!

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: literature



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To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: writing writers literature



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Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: creativity



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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: life future despair



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Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: money love



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

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: passion time infinity



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Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: poets



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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: writing naturalism realism



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