Gustave Flaubert

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#simple #love

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#politics #dreams

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#temptation

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #life

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#so-true #inspirational

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#imagination #dreams

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#boredom

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#writers #writing #life