Quote of Gustave Flaubert - I believe that if one always...

Biography - Gustave Flaubert:

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

Quote

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

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

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Translation

(French, German)

Je crois que si l’on regardait toujours les cieux, on finirait par avoir des ailes.”
Gustave Flaubert

Ich glaube, dass einem mit der Zeit Flügel wachsen würden, wenn man immer den Himmel betrachtet.”
Gustave Flaubert

Quotes about heaven:

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

We are both of us neighbors of the sky, Madame,
Since you are beautiful and I am old.”
Victor Hugo

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau

heaven

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
Anatole France

Quotes for: wings:

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
Salvador Dalí

Fear: Gives one wings.”
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.”
Jules Renard

wings

Gustave Flaubert also said...

Idiots: Those who do not think like us.”
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas

to think

Fear: Gives one wings.”
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas

To have talent, you must be convinced that you possess it.”
Gustave Flaubert

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
Gustave Flaubert

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.”
Gustave Flaubert

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
Gustave Flaubert

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