Gustave Flaubert Quotes

“It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness, what scratches others tears me to pieces.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Collected Works of Gustave Flaubert

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― Gustave Flaubert, Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert

“La pluie ne tombait plus ; le jour commençait à venir, et, sur les branches des pommiers sans feuilles, des oiseaux se tenaient immobiles, hérissant leurs petites plumes au vent froid du matin.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert: Oeuvres complètes et Annexes - 69 titres

“The priest first read a condensed lesson of sacred history. Felicite evoked Paradise, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, the blazing cities, the dying nations, the shattered idols; and out of this she developed a great respect for the Almighty and a great fear of His wrath. Then, when she had listened to the Passion, she wept. Why had they crucified Him who loved little children, nourished the people, made the blind see, and who, out of humility, had wished to be born among the poor, in a stable? The sowings, the harvests, the wine-presses, all those familiar things which the Scriptures mention, formed a part of her life; the word of God sanctified them; and she loved the lambs with increased tenderness for the sake of the Lamb, and the doves because of the Holy Ghost. She”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Novels, tales, plays, letters, essays of French literary realism