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Gustave Flaubert
Quote from Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
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Quote from Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Quote from Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
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