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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Gustave Flaubert
Doubt, Madness, Illness
Gustave Flaubert (2002). “Memoirs of a Madman”, Hesperus Press

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

Gustave Flaubert
Sleep, Doubt, Pillow
Gustave Flaubert (2016). “Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life”, p.501, The Floating Press

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

Gustave Flaubert
Doubt, Desperate

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Gustave Flaubert
Doubt, Literature, Mania

I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

Gustave Flaubert
Work, Profound, Doubt

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.

Gustave Flaubert
Believe, Doubt, Different

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