Quotes Tagged With :flaubert

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right....

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment.....

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society....

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with....

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary....

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting....

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently:....