“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Fonte: Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.Gustave Flaubert: 198 citações90 Curtidas
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
Gustave Flaubert Memoirs of a Madman
Fonte: Memoirs of a Madman
“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Fonte: Madame Bovary
13 August 1846
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
Gustave Flaubert livro November
Fonte: November
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
Quoted in The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, ed. and trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), xii.
Correspondence
Variante: There is no 'true'. There are merely ways of perceiving truth.