Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Read much, but not many books. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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