“Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?” — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.” — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
