Novelist · French · 1821 – 1880 · 71 quotes
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
Novelist · French · 1821 – 1880
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Read much, but not many books.
Exuberance is better than taste.
Madame Bovary is myself.
Read in order to live.
