Gustave Flaubert föddes den December 12th1821 och dog den 8 May 1880 - regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.