Top 71 Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Read in order to live.

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

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

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.