694 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Deixava-se levar pelo balanço das melodias e sentia que ela própria vibrava em todo seu ser, como se os arcos dos violinos viessem passear sobre seus nervos.

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and 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.

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

Sadness is a vice.

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

Ja volim jesen, to je žalosno godišnje doba kao stvoreno za uspomene. Kada stabla više nemaju lišće, kada nebo zadržava još i u sutonu riđu šaru koja pozlaćuje uvelu travu, slatko je gledati gdje se gasi sve ono što je još nedavno gorjelo u vama.