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“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”

Gustave Flaubert book November

Source: November

“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”

Gustave Flaubert

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”

Gustave Flaubert

1871
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand

“Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”

Gustave Flaubert book Sentimental Education

Source: Sentimental Education

“Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

Gustave Flaubert

“She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Read in order to live.”

Gustave Flaubert

“To be simple is no small matter.”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: Selected Letters

“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

“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 Flaubert

“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”

Gustave Flaubert

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary