Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Weitere Zitate von Gustave Flaubert
Zum Autor"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."
"Sadness is a vice."
"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."
"The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel."
"From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850)."