“Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.”
Source: Rites of Compassion
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Famous Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Source: Three Tales
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: Intimate notebook, 1840-1841
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
Source: madame bovary
Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)
“Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.”
Source: Letters
Source: Letters