Gustave Flaubert Quote

My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense for me to have desires.


Letter to Alfred LePoittevin, 13 May 1845. As quoted in: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 (Harvard University Press, 1980)


My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense for me to have desires.

My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense for me to have desires.

My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense for me to have desires.

My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense for me to have desires.