Author: Gustave Flaubert

Quotes

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

- Gustave Flaubert

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

- Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

- Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

- Gustave Flaubert

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

- Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

- Gustave Flaubert

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

- Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

- Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

- Gustave Flaubert

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