Gustave Flaubert Quote

It is strange, how I was born with little faith in happiness. While still very young I had a complete presentiment of life.


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


It is strange, how I was born with little faith in happiness. While still very young I had a complete presentiment of life.

It is strange, how I was born with little faith in happiness. While still very young I had a complete presentiment of life.

It is strange, how I was born with little faith in happiness. While still very young I had a complete presentiment of life.

It is strange, how I was born with little faith in happiness. While still very young I had a complete presentiment of life.