The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us

Written By Gustave Flaubert

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