Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
Gustave FlaubertHe had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
Gustave FlaubertTags: love men women french cowardice
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
Gustave FlaubertTags: happiness
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.
Gustave FlaubertWhat baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Gustave FlaubertWrite about daily life as you would write history.
Gustave FlaubertGod is in the details.
Gustave FlaubertL'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe
Gustave FlaubertThere, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck like a child, an old man sat eating, drips of gravy drbibbling gravy from him lips. His eyes were bloodshot and he had a little pigtail tied up with a black ribbon. This was the Marquis' father-in-law... he had led a... Read more tumultuous life of debauchery and duelling, of wagers made and women abducted, had squandered his fortune and terrified his whole family... Emma's eyes kept coming back to this old man with the sagging lips, as though to something wonderfully majestic. He had lived at court and slept in the bed of a queen!
Gustave FlaubertTags: bovary
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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