Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

French writer

Lived from: 1821 - 1880

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: France

Born: 12 december 1821 Died: 8 may 1880

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• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  ― Gustave Flaubert
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• All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

  ― Gustave Flaubert
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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  ― Gustave Flaubert
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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  ― Gustave Flaubert
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• Read in order to live.

  ― Gustave Flaubert
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accomplishments
• humiliating
• enterprises
• ignorance
• promise
• science

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