Quotes By Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.