Gustave Flaubert Quotes


She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.


Citations

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling, Harper & Brothers, 1904, p. 43.

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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
  • Born: December 12, 1821
  • Died: May 8, 1880
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist

Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer {Guy de Maupassant} was a protégé of Flaubert.