Famous Quotes by Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary

Below are famous quotes by Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary - French realist novelist (1821 - 1880).

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

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