694 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

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.

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.