Gustave Flaubert

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Biography - Gustave Flaubert:

French novelist.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1880
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope.

Gustave Flaubert

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Wikisource - Pensées de Gustave Flaubert (fr)

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(French, German)

L'amour est une plante de printemps qui parfume tout de son espoir.

Gustave Flaubert

Liebe ist eine Frühlingspflanze, die alles mit ihrer Hoffnung durchduftet.

Gustave Flaubert

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Quotes for: love

Quotes about love:

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten /

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.

Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon /

love

We have need of morality only for want of love.

André Comte-Sponville /

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

All about love...

Quotes for: hope

Quotes about hope:

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Torquato Tasso /

hope

Hope stole into my heart against my will.

Jean Racine - Phèdre /

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics /

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Odes /

hope

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon /

hope

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Friedrich Schiller /

All about hope...

Quotes for: spring

One swallow does not make a summer.

spring

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Homer - Iliad /

If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

Gustave Flaubert also said...

Idiots: Those who do not think like us.

Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas /

to think

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

Gustave Flaubert /

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary /

Philosophy: Should always be snickered at.

Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas /

philosophy

I want to live through three or four more books.

Gustave Flaubert /

Fear: Gives one wings.

Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas /

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