Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The deepest way to feel something is to suffer for it.

Let's not give the world weapons against us, because it will use them.

Love art; among all lies, it is the least untrue.

When we grow old, small habits become great tyrannies.

Happiness is a monstrous thing. Those who seek it find their punishment.

Possibly, the homeland is like the family; we only feel its value when we lose it.

Idols should not be touched: the gold stays in the hands.

The heart is a land that every passion moves, shakes, and works upon the ruins of the others.

The yearning suffocated beneath the habit.

Melancholy is a memory that is ignored.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or as the ambitious do, to instruct yourself. No, read to live.

The word is like a rolling mill that always lengthens feelings.