Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
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Gustave Flaubert
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12 December, 1821
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08 May, 1880
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