What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diam… - Gustave Flaubert

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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

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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And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Notre ignorance de l'histoire nous fait calomnier notre temps.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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