Gustave Flaubert Quotes

“Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:happiness

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:heart desire

“For, all the three years, he had carefully avoided her in consequence of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:men cowardice

“And it was for him, for this creature, for this man, who understood nothing, who felt nothing!”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:understanding man feeling

“Ah! by Jove! one’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:beauty society

“As opposed to the maternal ideas, he had a certain virile idea of childhood on which he sought to mould his son, wishing him to be brought up hardily, like a Spartan, to give him a strong constitution.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:education

“She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:passion art

“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:passion

“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:passion

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

topic:reading books

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