“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
— Gustave Flaubert“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
— Gustave Flaubert“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
— Gustave Flaubert“But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.”
— Gustave Flaubert“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”
— Gustave Flaubert“God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world”
— Gustave FlaubertSmell brings to mind…a thousand forgotten memories, a thousand shadows, a thousand empty dreams.
— Gustave Flaubert