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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

And isn’t not to be bored one of the principal goals of life?[Le principal de la vie: ne pas trop s’embêter?]

Source:Letters to his mother (February 23, 1850), The Letter of Gustave Flaubert (1830-1857), (ed. 1980), Page 113
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  • Name: Gustave Flaubert
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist
  • Born: December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880
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