Gustave Flaubert Quotations | Page 4

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.