Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Bourgeoisie Class warfare

Author

Gustave Flaubert

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Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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France Europe

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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 17 May 1867.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Knopf, 1993, no. 77.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Another quote from 1867

Theory of the true civilization.
It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning, It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

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Civilization

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Charles Baudelaire
Language
French
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 58.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 58.

Another quote originally in French

The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Existential solitude Connecting with others Isolation The human condition

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Marcel Proust
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The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.