Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”
“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”
— GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Novelist · 1821 – 1886
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist who pursued perfection of style with legendary discipline, rewriting pages until every word seemed inevitable. His Madame Bovary, prosecuted for obscenity in 1857, is a landmark of literary realism.
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