Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Gustave FlaubertA good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Gustave FlaubertMediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
Gustave FlaubertLove, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Gustave Flaubert