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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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“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”

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Гюстав Флобер: Цитаты на английском языке

“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”

Gustave Flaubert книга November

Источник: November

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”

“Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?”

1871
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand

“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”

Источник: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”

“Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.”

Gustave Flaubert книга Sentimental Education

Источник: Sentimental Education

“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”

Источник: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.”

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“Read in order to live.”

“To be simple is no small matter.”

“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?”

Источник: Selected Letters

“In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.”

“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”

“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”

Источник: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

“One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Источник: Madame Bovary

“Self-possession depends on its environment.”

“The man is nothing, the work — all. (December 1875)”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

“One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.”

L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre – tout
Slightly misquoted in "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle as L'homme c'est rien – l'oeuvre c'est tout.
Correspondence, Letters to George Sand

“He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.”

12 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”

Gustave Flaubert книга Sentimental Education

Pt. 3, Ch. 3
Sentimental Education (1869)