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    Gustave Flaubert

    Read through the most famous quotes from Gustave Flaubert




    The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #effect #faster #more #sticks #thought

    The future is the worst thing about the present. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #future #present #thing #worst #worst thing

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


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #heart #like #stomach #varied #wants

    The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #degraded #humanity #more

    The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #avoid #being #close #count #nothing

    The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #his #leave #me #must #poet

    A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #dies #friend #something #who #you

    What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #impossible

    Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #beautiful #created #excessively #ideal #man

    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. ↗


    — Gustave Flaubert

    #calculate #harm #his #importance #man






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    Under this aspect Flaubert exercised an extraordinary influence over Guy de Maupassant Edmond de Goncourt Alphonse Daudet and Zola. His Œuvres Complètes (8 vols. Flaubert's lean and precise[citation needed] writing style has had a large influence on 20th century writers such as Franz Kafka and J.

    Gustave Flaubert (French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first publiGustave Flaubertd novel Madame Bovary (1857) for his Correspondence and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.

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