Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, |
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
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By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself.
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That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
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I feel very old sometimes...I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of shit on the heads of my fellow men.
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