Quotes - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert:

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Quotes - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert:

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Quotes - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert:

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.