Quotes by Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet

Explore a curated collection of 7 quotes by Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces tog — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius oug — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a s — Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet