Gustave Flaubert híres idézetei
Gustave Flaubert Idézetek az emberekről
Gustave Flaubert idézetek
Gustave Flaubert: Idézetek angolul
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
Quoted in The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, ed. and trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), xii.
Correspondence
Változat: There is no 'true'. There are merely ways of perceiving truth.
“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”
Forrás: November
“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”
Forrás: Madame Bovary
“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”
Forrás: Madame Bovary
“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything”
Forrás: November
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
9 December 1852
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
Forrás: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
11 December 1852
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
“What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.”
Forrás: Madame Bovary
“And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
Forrás: The Temptation of St. Antony