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Gustave Flaubert Quotes about Memories

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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert
Memories, Firsts, Anticipation
"Pay Now, Consume Later" by Dave Nussbaum,

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

Gustave Flaubert
Missing You, Beautiful, Memories

Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two weeks ago...three weeks ago, I was there!' And, little by little, in her memory, the faces all blurred together; she forgot the tunes of the quadrilles; no longer could she so clearly picture the liveries and the rooms; some details disappeared, but the yearning remained.

Gustave Flaubert
Memories, Two, Together
Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Mark Overstall (2008). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.51, Oxford University Press

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Gustave Flaubert
Memories, Dating, Literature

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Gustave Flaubert
Memories, Past, Personality

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

Gustave Flaubert
Dream, Memories, Reality
Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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