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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

«You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.»
«Of all lies, art is the least untrue.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | Keywords: untrue
«Exuberance is better than taste»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | Keywords: exuberance
«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.»
«A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.»
«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.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | Keywords: jackal, Jackals, piss
«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.»
«As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.»
«All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.»
«. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.»

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