Gustave Flaubert Quote

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.


Selected letters (ed. 1953)


What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together...

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together...

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together...

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together...