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:
“Everything which one invents is true, be sure of 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)
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith—faith and freedom.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)