Gustave Flaubert Quote

The soul expands with suffering, thus enormously increasing its capacity; what formerly filled it to the point of bursting now barely covers the bottom.


Letter to Maxime DuCamp, 7 April 1846. As quoted in: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 (Harvard University Press, 1980)


The soul expands with suffering, thus enormously increasing its capacity; what formerly filled it to the point of bursting now barely covers the...

The soul expands with suffering, thus enormously increasing its capacity; what formerly filled it to the point of bursting now barely covers the...

The soul expands with suffering, thus enormously increasing its capacity; what formerly filled it to the point of bursting now barely covers the...

The soul expands with suffering, thus enormously increasing its capacity; what formerly filled it to the point of bursting now barely covers the...