Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Society
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Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?
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Axion: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
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Our duty is to feel what is great and love what is beautiful -- not to accept all the social conventions and the infamies they impose on us.
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'What's improper about it?' retorted the clerk. 'Everybody does it in Paris!' It was an irresistible and conclusive argument.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.