Gustave Flaubert

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#writers #writing #life

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beauty

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #marriage #life

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#intelligence #intelligence

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#keyboard #love #madame-bovary #music #piano

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#education

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#dreams #love #death

She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #education