Gustave Flaubert Quotes
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857. Edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard University Press, 1980, p. 155.
The Flies was a play and this quotation is dialogue uttered by King Aegistheus in Act 2. The existence of a free man or woman has always been an anathema to a King or a Dictator.
Alvarez was one of the key physicists who developed the atom bomb and was the scientist selected to accompany the plane bombing Hiroshima. There was considerable friction in the Manhattan Project development of the bomb between the scientists and the military.
Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in 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. The celebrated short story writer {Guy de Maupassant} was a protégé of Flaubert.
