Cuidado con la tristeza. Es un vicio.
Gustave FlaubertElle lui parut donc si vertueuse et inaccessible, que toute espérance, même la plus vague, l'abandonna.
Mais, par ce renoncement, il la plaçait en des conditions extraordinaires. Elle se dégagea, pour lui, des qualités charnelles dont il n'avait rien à obtenir ; et elle alla, dans son cœur, montant toujours et s'en détachant, à la manière magnifique d'une apothéose qui s'envole. C'était un de ces sentiments purs qui n'embarrassent pas l'exercice de la vie, que l'on cultive parce qu'ils sont rares, et dont la perte affligerait plus que la possession n'est réjouissante.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave FlaubertTags: reading books literature bibliophile
Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in an angel's form, a lyre with strings of steel, sounding sweet-sad epithalamiums to the heavens, then why should she not find that being?
Gustave FlaubertTags: prince-charming
With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
Gustave FlaubertIl ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.
Gustave FlaubertThe mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea?
Gustave FlaubertThere is a place they call La Pature, on the top of the hill, on the edge of the forest. Sometimes, on Sundays, I go and stay there with a book, watching the sunset.
Gustave FlaubertYou don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
Gustave FlaubertTags: writing
At last she sighed.
"But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.
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