Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception…

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry…

One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for…

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the…

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with…

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

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes…

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom…

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all…

A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies…

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of…

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe…

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and…

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal…

All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact…