Gustave Flaubert: Quotes about love

Gustave Flaubert was French writer (1821–1880). Explore interesting quotes on love.
Gustave Flaubert: 196   quotes 11   likes

“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Love , Money

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Love , Life , Heart

“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

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Love

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

Gustave Flaubert book November

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Love , Heart

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

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Love

“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

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Love , Life , Feeling