More from Gustave Flaubert
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
Letters to George Sand, 4 or 5 October 1871
Gustave Flaubert on life and death
She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.
Madame Bovary (1857), Part I, Chapter Nine
