[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.
Gustave FlaubertEverything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.
Gustave FlaubertLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave FlaubertMay I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
Gustave Flaubert