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 FlaubertTags: writing writers creativity
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
Gustave FlaubertOne day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
Gustave FlaubertStupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
Gustave FlaubertTags: stupidity mediocrity
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
Gustave FlaubertTags: writing writers creativity
You don’t make art out of good intentions.
Gustave FlaubertTags: art writing writers creativity artists
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Gustave FlaubertTags: art writing writers creativity artists readers flattery public
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Gustave FlaubertTags: love relationships
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
Gustave FlaubertTags: moon
How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.
Gustave FlaubertTags: mankind
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