Quote #9
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
More from Gustave Flaubert
- 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.
- Axion: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Exuberance is better than taste:
- You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
- Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
- The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! Ma…
- He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.