Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Desire

• A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Missing You, Beautiful, Memories

• Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Goal, Desire, Consequence

• A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Women, Struggle, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

• For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Desire, Stronger

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

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