Gustave Flaubert Long Quotations

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Talent is long patience.

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

Talent is a long patience.