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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Gustave Flaubert

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

Causes French Novelist

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

French Novelist

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

French Novelist Language

There is no truth. There is only perception. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

French Novelist Perception

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man - Gustave Flaubert Quotes

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man

Gustave Flaubert

Eyes

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

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

Gustave Flaubert

French Novelist Inventions

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