The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to… - Gustave Flaubert

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity. (4 or 5 October 1871)

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.

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Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)

Tout le rêve de la démocratie est d'élever le prolétaire au niveau de bêtise du bourgeois.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. (14 August 1853)

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