Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. — Gustave Flaubert
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. — Gustave Flaubert
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert
L’Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary. — Gustave Flaubert