"As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky."

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About Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist and a central figure in literary realism. Born in Rouen on 1821-12-12, he is best known for Madame Bovary and for his exacting prose style. He died at Croisset on 1880-05-08.

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