Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Gustave Flaubert
Perfection is the enemy of the good.
Gustave Flaubert
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert