Gustave Flaubert

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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    The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    It is the fault of fate.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)