Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.
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“What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does—that is, fill us with wonderment.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)