Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert In Egypt: A Sensibility On Tour Quotes
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
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.
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.
I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.
