Flaubert

Famous quotes containing the word flaubert:

    Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)