62 ordspråk av Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert föddes den December 12th 1821 och dog den 8 May 1880 - regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary.
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 Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

 Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless

 Equality is slavery. That is why I love art.

 Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

 Exuberance is better than taste

 Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph.

 How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

 How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

 Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

 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.

 I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

 I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed

 I maintain that ideas are events. It is more difficult to make them interesting, I know, but if you fail the style is at fault.

 In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

 Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.


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