Gustave Flaubert Quote

The burden of existence does not weigh on our shoulders when we are composing. It is true that the fatigue and the feeling of desertion that follow are all the more terrible. Let it be so, however.


Letter to Alfred LePoittevin, 16 September 1845. As quoted in: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 (Harvard University Press, 1980)


The burden of existence does not weigh on our shoulders when we are composing. It is true that the fatigue and the feeling of desertion that follow...

The burden of existence does not weigh on our shoulders when we are composing. It is true that the fatigue and the feeling of desertion that follow...

The burden of existence does not weigh on our shoulders when we are composing. It is true that the fatigue and the feeling of desertion that follow...

The burden of existence does not weigh on our shoulders when we are composing. It is true that the fatigue and the feeling of desertion that follow...