Gustave Flaubert

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#clings #even #everything #hope #love is

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#artist #creation #everywhere #god #him

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#always #believe #end #i #i believe

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #beautiful thing #desire #memory #miss

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#failed #humiliating #idiots #more #nothing

There is no truth. There is only perception. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#perception #truth

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#here #his #ignorance #immorality #legion

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#becomes #enough #interesting #long #look

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#because #good #good sense #i #i love

Madame Bovary is myself. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#myself