List of quotes from Gustave Flaubert
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
by Gustave Flaubert
"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."
by Gustave Flaubert
"That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust."
by Gustave Flaubert
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
by Gustave Flaubert
"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
by Gustave Flaubert
"Perfection is the enemy of the good."
by Gustave Flaubert