And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. — Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity is an immovable object: you can’t try to attack it wiithout being broken by it. — Gustave Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert
All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. — Gustave Flaubert
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is legion. — Gustave Flaubert
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to — Gustave Flaubert
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. — Gustave Flaubert
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. — Gustave Flaubert