I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.
Gustave FlaubertI love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave FlaubertThe author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Gustave FlaubertLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert