Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubertwas an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary, for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 December 1821
CityRouen, France
CountryFrance
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.