“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life as one writes history or the epic (without denaturing the subject) is perhaps an absurdity. That's… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly--to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I believe that if someone always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Bourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one. He amuses… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
