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
A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures. But a woman is always hampered.
