Gustave Flaubert Quotes
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857. Edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard University Press, 1980, p. 66.
The pressure on the military to produce positive results has existed in almost every war America has fought. In combat Patton may have been the most aggressive American general who produced very quick results. Yet he too felt the pressure.
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.
