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“ ”The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.
About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of 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.
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Additional quotes by Gustave Flaubert
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.
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.