Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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
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