The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.

Talent is long patience.