“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.Gustave Flaubert
“It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall.Gustave Flaubert
“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.Gustave Flaubert
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
“She [Madame Bovary] had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success—a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.Gustave Flaubert