Quotes by Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enoug — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now. — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose he — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remain — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, n — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber. — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? — Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour