Gustave Flaubert Quote

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?


Madame Bovary (ed. Signet Classics, 1964)


What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning...

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning...

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning...

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning...