“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself;… — 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 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
