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Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
– Gustave Flaubert

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  1. But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands. – Gustave Flaubert
  2. An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. – Gustave Flaubert
  3. Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again. – Gustave Flaubert
  4. The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. – Gustave Flaubert
  5. By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream – Gustave Flaubert
  6. Thought is the greatest of pleasures -”pleasure itself is only imagination-”have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? – Gustave Flaubert
  7. How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything? – Gustave Flaubert
  8. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie. – Gustave Flaubert
  9. He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. – Gustave Flaubert
  10. The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. – Gustave Flaubert
  11. …those works that don’t touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art. – Gustave Flaubert
  12. Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. – Gustave Flaubert
  13. Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert
  14. People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along. – Gustave Flaubert
  15. …and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver. – Gustave Flaubert
  16. She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. – Gustave Flaubert
  17. Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. – Gustave Flaubert
  18. Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting. – Gustave Flaubert
  19. 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. – Gustave Flaubert
  20. On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. – Gustave Flaubert
  21. Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them. – Gustave Flaubert
  22. The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now. – Gustave Flaubert
  23. Sadness is a vice. – Gustave Flaubert
  24. Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex… – Gustave Flaubert
  25. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
  26. Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses. – Gustave Flaubert
  27. What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write. – Gustave Flaubert
  28. 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. – Gustave Flaubert
  29. He had the vanity to believe men did not like him -“ while men simply did not know him. – Gustave Flaubert
  30. 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. – Gustave Flaubert
  31. Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. – Gustave Flaubert
  32. I have patience in all things -“ as far as the antechamber. – Gustave Flaubert
  33. Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you’re creasing my dress. – Gustave Flaubert
  34. Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you’re creasing my dress. – Gustave Flaubert
  35. Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her. – Gustave Flaubert
  36. Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker. – Gustave Flaubert
  37. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert
  38. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert
  39. Irony takes nothing away from pathos. – Gustave Flaubert
  40. Irony takes nothing away from pathos. – Gustave Flaubert

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