3 Quotes by Gustav Flaubert

But it was above all at mealtimes that she could bear it no longer, in that little room on the ground floor, with the smoking stove, the creaking door, the oozing walls, the damp floor-tiles; all the bitterness of life seemed to be served to her on her plate, and, with the steam from the boiled beef, there rose from the depths of her soul other exhalations as it were of disgust.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.