Flaubert's Youth, 1821-1845

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1927 - 250 páginas

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Página 58 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her...
Página 229 - The only way not to be unhappy is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything else as nothing. Pride takes the place of all beside when it is established on a large basis. Work ! God wills it. That, it seems to me, is clear.— "I am reading over again the ^Eneid, certain verses of which I repeat to myself to satiety.
Página 118 - I have always had memories or sorts of instincts for perfumed shores, for azure seas. I was born to be emperor of Cochin-China, to smoke pipes 36 fathoms long, to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 minions, scimitars to cut off the heads of people whose faces I don't like, Numidian mares and fountains of marble; and I have nothing but immense, insatiable desires, an atrocious ennui and yawnings without end.
Página 235 - ... much — about art. I try to pass the time in the least boring way possible, and I have found it. Do as I do. Break with the outside world, live like a bear — a polar bear — let everything else go to hell — everything, yourself included, except your intelligence. There is now such a great gap between me and the rest of the world that I am sometimes surprised to hear people say the most natural and simple things. It's strange how the most banal utterance sometimes makes me marvel. There...

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