Gustave Flaubert quote about happiness from Madame Bovary - But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.
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“ But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. ”
 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856). copy citation

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Author Gustave Flaubert
Source Madame Bovary
Topic happiness desire despair
Date 1856
Language English
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Note Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2413/2413-h/2413-h.htm

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Gustave Flaubert quote about happiness from Madame Bovary - But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.
Gustave Flaubert quote about happiness from Madame Bovary - But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.