Gustave Flaubert Thinking Quotations

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.