Gustave Flaubert Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Gustave Flaubert (French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was an influential French writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. 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 Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Reasons of the Heart, A Simple Heart, Maya Memsaab, Madame Bovary, Save and Protect, The Loves of Salammbo, Unholy Love, Cabiria
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Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
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Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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A noted gourmand.
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He once wandered into a hotel dining room and found a table laid for a meal. Thinking it was for him, he sat down and ate everything. The hotel management was aghast, and told him that the meal had been prepared for a party of four that had just arrived.
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As a schoolboy, he was ordered to copy 1,000 lines of poetry as a punishment. He not only refused to do it, he passed a petition to protest it. The head of the school was not amused, and Flaubert and two others who signed his petition were expelled for their impertinence.
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At school he led an angry protest against a substitute teacher.
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First in his philosophy class at the College Royal.