Gustave Flaubert

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#hospital #writing #death

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#creativity #art

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex... ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#men #men

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#money #love

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#world #dreams

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#nature

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #madame-bovary #quotes #love

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#metaphor #life

Charles’ conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody’s ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#dreams

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#artists #writers #writing #art