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    • 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.
    • I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. Gustave Flaubert. Morning, Afternoon.
    • Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert. Inspirational, Travel, Adventure.
    • Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. Gustave Flaubert.
    • “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert.
    • “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert.
    • “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” ― Gustave Flaubert.
    • “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it” ― Gustave Flaubert.
  1. Gustave Flaubert. There is no truth. There is only perception. 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.

    • “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, Madame Bovary.
    • “At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.
    • “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.” ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary.
    • “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. " (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)” ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary.
  2. 40 of the best book quotes from Gustave Flaubert. 01. “Nothing around them had changed; and yet, for her, something more momentous had happened than if the mountains had been shoved aside.”. Gustave Flaubert. author. Madame Bovary. book. Emma Bovary. character.

  3. Jan 12, 2024 · 1 Quotes. 1.1 Sentimental Education (1869) 1.2 Correspondence. 1.2.1 Letters to Madame Louise Colet. 1.2.2 Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. 1.2.3 Letters to George Sand. 2 Misattributed. 3 Quotes about Flaubert. 4 External links. Quotes [ edit] Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  4. Because Flaubert does not let us escape from Emma’s environment and forces us to notice all its imperfections, we share Emma’s frustration and claustrophobia. Explanation of the famous quotes in Madame Bovary, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.

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