I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert
Aquela putain, Emma Bovary, tem a vida eterna e eu morro como um cão.
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Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.
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Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.
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The more ideas they had the more they suffered.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only one worth living.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream.
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.
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Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.
Quoted by Gustave Flaubert