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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Another quote from 1867

Theory of the true civilization.
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Time
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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 58.

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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

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Jules Huret
Language
French
Time
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