Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Life
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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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.
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One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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