Flaubert

Famous quotes containing the word flaubert:

“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)