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
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Equality is slavery. That is why I love art.
Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.