Gustave Flaubert Mugs

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: 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.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: one’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

Description: Gustave Flaubert

Description: Gustave Flaubert is one of those who built and defined realism in the genre of the novel. His Madame Bovary proved to be a timeless story about human desires and the pains they cause.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Description: Gustave Flaubert

Description: Gustave Flaubert

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Elle souhaitait à la fois mourir et habiter Paris.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: There is no truth. There is only perception.

Description: Gustave Flaubert french quote: Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Description: Gustave Flaubert french quote: Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: si tu pouvais lire dans mon coeur, tu verrais la place où je t'ai mise.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Description: You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

Description: Gustav Flaubert quote: The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Description: Gustave Flaubert's quote about history is both funny and accurate

Description: The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Description: "Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." -Gustave Flaubert

Description: Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary, his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. Flaubert famously avoided the inexact, the abstract and the vaguely inapt expression, and scrupulously eschewed the cliché. In a letter to George Sand he said that he spends his time "trying to write harmonious sentences, avoiding assonances". (Wikipedia)

Description: Gustave Flaubert's quote about history is both funny and accurate

Description: Uh-oh, just a humorous take on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, a classic novel of the world literature.

Description: Madame Bovary

Description: Madame Bovary