Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

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

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.