Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
("Madame Bovary")
More Quotes from Gustave Flaubert:
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.Gustave Flaubert
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
Gustave Flaubert
My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.
Gustave Flaubert
You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert
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