Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Gustave Flaubert
Born: December 12, 1821
Died: May 8, 1880 (aged 58)
Bio: Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country.
Known for:
- Madame Bovary (1856)
- Sentimental Education (1869)
- Salammbô (1862)
- Three Tales (1877)
- Bouvard et Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert Quotes