Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#science

This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#literature #art

Tutto finisce, tutto passa, l'acqua scorre e il cuore dimentica. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#science #men

Amad el arte. De todas las mentiras es la menos mentirosa. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#art

It’s no easy business to be simple. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#business

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#see #sees #sitting #standing #young

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like