Quotes by Gustave Flaubert, November

Explore a curated collection of 12 quotes by Gustave Flaubert, November. 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.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom — Gustave Flaubert, November
It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grote — Gustave Flaubert, November
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more — Gustave Flaubert, November
In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew — Gustave Flaubert, November
At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes t — Gustave Flaubert, November
We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up gi — Gustave Flaubert, November
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the e — Gustave Flaubert, November
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to — Gustave Flaubert, November
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. — Gustave Flaubert, November
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything — Gustave Flaubert, November
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of ar — Gustave Flaubert, November
He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first case you are relievin — Gustave Flaubert, November