The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave FlaubertThe true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave FlaubertMadame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
Gustave FlaubertWhat I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.
Gustave Flaubert