Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom ✨ Gusta…

Gustave Flaubert
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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2005). November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style, Hesperus Press
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God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world ✨ Gustave Flaubert (1991). Early Writings, p.34, U of Nebraska Press
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2002). Memoirs of a Madman, Hesperus Press
As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branche … ▶
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The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the ag … ▶

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2005). November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style, Hesperus Press

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