Gustave Flaubert Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Gustave Flaubert:

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.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Gustave Flaubert

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

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

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Gustave Flaubert

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Gustave Flaubert

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.

Gustave Flaubert

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

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Gustave Flaubert

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Gustave Flaubert

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Gustave Flaubert

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Gustave Flaubert

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Gustave Flaubert

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Gustave Flaubert

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Gustave Flaubert