Exuberance is better than taste. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2013). Delphi Com…

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Exuberance is better than taste. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated), p.1193, Delphi Classics
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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again. ✨ Gustave Flaubert ( … ▶
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (1992). Madame Bovar … ▶
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugat … ▶
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, p.14, Harvard Unive … ▶
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Exuberance is better than taste. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated), p.1193, Delphi Classics

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