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Gustave Flaubert
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“C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Salammbô Gustave Flaubert Gallimard 1970 43 I : Le Festin 1862 Folio classique}} === :w:L'Éducation sentimentale L’Éducation sentimentale, :w:1869 en littérature == === La Tentation de saint Antoine, 1874 === === Trois …
“Tout le monde, par excès de terreur, devenait brave.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 6: Hanno (tr. J. S. Chartres, 1886)
“The brazen arms were working more quickly. They paused no longer. Every time that a child was placed in them the priests of Moloch spread out their hands upon him to burden him with the crimes of the people, vociferating: "They are not men but oxen!" and the multitude round about repeated: "Oxen! oxen!" The devout exclaimed: "Lord! Eat!”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 13: Moloch (tr. J. S. Chartres, 1886)
“Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rien n'est humiliant comme de voir les sots réussir dans les entreprises où l'on échoue.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. They are hampered by mistrust of themselves, daunted by the fear of giving offence; besides, deep feelings of affection are like respectable women; they are afraid of being found out and they go through life with downcast eyes.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876) (Correspondence v4, p. 280)
“What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Guy de Maupassant (February 16, 1880)
“There is no 'true'. There are merely ways of perceiving truth.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, ed. and trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), xii.
“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8-9 August, 1846
“One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12 August 1846
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 August 1846
“Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 September 1846
“One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 October 1846
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 9 December 1852
“The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.”
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Recorded in: 11 December 1852
“J'ai eu, aussi, moi, mon époque nerveuse, mon époque sentimentale, et j'en porte encore, comme un galérien, la marque au cou. Avec ma main brûlée j'ai le droit maintenant d'écrire des phrases sur la nature du feu.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I, too, had my nervous period, my sentimental period, and I still bear its mark, like a galley slave, on my neck. With my burnt hand I now have the right to write some sentences on the nature of fire. (5-6 July 1852)
“You can calculate]] the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. (14 June 1853)”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
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Recorded in: 14 August 1853
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 18 March 1857
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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Recorded in: June 1857
“Tout le rêve de la démocratie est d'élever le prolétaire au niveau de bêtise du bourgeois.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4 or 5 October 1871
“Notre ignorance de l'histoire nous fait calomnier notre temps.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8 September 1871
“Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition of humanity.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 10 May 1867
“L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre – tout”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 1875
“Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality? Some see things black, others blue — the multitude sees them brute-fashion. There is nothing less natural than Michael Angelo; there is nothing more powerful! The anxiety about eternal truth is a mark of contemporary baseness; and art will become, if things go on in that way, a sort of poor joke as much below religion as it is below poetry, and as much below politics as it is below business. You will never reach its end — yes, its end! — which is to cause within us an impersonal exaltation, with petty works, in spite of all your finished execution.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pt. 1, Ch. 4 (ed. Dora Knowlton Ranous, 1922)