I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tra… - Gustave Flaubert

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I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

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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