My kingdom is as wide as the world, and my desire has no limit. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, and without God. Men call me Science. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The future is the worst thing about the present. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Success is a result, not a goal. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Exuberance is better than taste. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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