For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her pe…

Gustave Flaubert
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2015). Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more, p.33, e-artnow
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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, p.7, Harvard University Press
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ✨ Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by F … ▶

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2015). Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more, p.33, e-artnow

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