Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave FlaubertLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave FlaubertOne arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave FlaubertDAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
Gustave Flaubert