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„Драматическое искусство — это геометрия, переходящая в музыку.“

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„Художник должен все поднимать на поверхность, он подобен насосу, в нём есть большущая трубка, спускающаяся в самые недра предметов, в глубинные слои. Он втягивает в себя и выпускает на солнечный свет гигантскими снопами то, что было придавлено землёю и никому не видно.“

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„Весь талант писателя, в конце концов, состоит лишь в выборе слов.“

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„Есть две разновидности тщеславия: тщеславие общественное и тщеславие частное, зовущееся спокойной совестью, человеческим достоинством, самоуважением, — настолько справедлива истина, что в каждом из нас живут два человека, тот, кто действует, и тот, кто судит.“

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

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Гюстав Флобер: Цитаты на английском языке

“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.”

Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
Вариант: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Контексте: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)

“Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality?”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

Gustave Flaubert книга Sentimental Education

Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Sentimental Education (1869)
Контексте: Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! What does it mean — reality? Some see things black, others blue — the multitude sees them brute-fashion. There is nothing less natural than Michael Angelo; there is nothing more powerful! The anxiety about eternal truth is a mark of contemporary baseness; and art will become, if things go on in that way, a sort of poor joke as much below religion as it is below poetry, and as much below politics as it is below business. You will never reach its end — yes, its end! — which is to cause within us an impersonal exaltation, with petty works, in spite of all your finished execution.

“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”

“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”

“She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”

Источник: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

18 March 1857
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres. To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
Correspondence
Вариант: Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”

“For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.”

14 August 1853
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

“Exuberance is better than taste”

Gustave Flaubert книга Sentimental Education

Pt. 2, Ch. 3
Sentimental Education (1869)
Контексте: For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. They are hampered by mistrust of themselves, daunted by the fear of giving offence; besides, deep feelings of affection are like respectable women; they are afraid of being found out and they go through life with downcast eyes.

“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.”

Gustave Flaubert книга Sentimental Education

Pt. 1, Ch. 4; the most famous portion of this statement is "Exuberance is better than taste…" [Mieux vaut l'exubérance que le goût.]
Sentimental Education (1869)
Контексте: Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary