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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Famous quotes by gustave flaubert:
“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the inner force of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air—a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”
—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)
“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)