Flaubert

Famous quotes containing the word flaubert:

“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)