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“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

“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 Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“The 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 Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Sadness is a vice.”

Gustave Flaubert

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

Gustave Flaubert

9 December 1852
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

“The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.”

Gustave Flaubert

11 December 1852
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

Gustave Flaubert

“And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: The Temptation of St. Antony