The Letters of Gustave Flaubert Quotes

“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880

“I laugh at everything, even at that which I love the most. There is no fact, thing, feeling or person over which I have not blithely run my clownishness, like an iron roller imparting sheen to cloth.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880

“اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880