I don't use women as means to an end: I do what the poet in your novel does — I use them only as objects of contemplation.


Letter to Alfred LePoittevin, 13 May 1845. As quoted in: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 (Harvard University Press, 1980)

Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I don't use women as means to an end: I do what the poet in your novel does — I use them only as objects of contemplation.

I don't use women as means to an end: I do what the poet in your novel does — I use them only as objects of contemplation.

I don't use women as means to an end: I do what the poet in your novel does — I use them only as objects of contemplation.

I don't use women as means to an end: I do what the poet in your novel does — I use them only as objects of contemplation.