The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Equality is slavery. That is why I love art. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols the gilt comes off in our hands. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I maintain that ideas are events. It is more difficult to make them interesting, I know, but if you fail the style is at fault. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature. - Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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