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Old Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of…
- Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.
- Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and…
- Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo…
- I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s…
- He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its…
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