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.More Gustave Flaubert [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.More Gustave Flaubert [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:04]

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:13]

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:20]

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:26]

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:33]

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:40]

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:02]

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.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:10]

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.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:17]

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:24]

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:35]

Exuberance is better than taste.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:41]

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:48]

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:11]

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:19]

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:27]

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:38]

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:43]

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:41]

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:49]

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:57]

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:04]

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.More Gustave Flaubert [10/07/2011 02:10:26]