Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
Gustave FlaubertOne can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave FlaubertTags: life self-control feelings deeds
I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!
Gustave FlaubertTags: life
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
Gustave FlaubertTags: life inspirational work
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.
Gustave FlaubertTags: reading books literature
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
Tags: disillusionment touch disappointment gilding idols
But I have gone back to work; I try to intoxicate myself with ink, the way others intoxicate themselves with brandy, so as to forget the public disasters and my private sorrows.
Gustave FlaubertL'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe.
Gustave FlaubertThe denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave FlaubertTags: idolatry detachment idols love-disappointment
...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean, tempest-torn, uncovering everything from the seaweed in the shallows to the sands of the abyss.
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