
076
Flora
Gallery XI: "Portraits" | «Retratos»
2001
acrylic and oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
private collection

Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880).
French novelist.
French original
English version
...puisque personne, jamais, ne peut donner l'exacte mesure de ses besoins, ni de ses conceptions, ni de ses douleurs, et que la parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.
Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary,
deuxième partie, xii
...since to no one is it ever given to convey the exact measure of one's cravings, one's ideas or one's pain; never dreaming that human speech is like a crazy kettle on which we can only beat out tunes fit to charm a dancing bear, when all the while we would fain conjure the wandering stars and make them weep for us.
Gustave Flaubert,
Madame Bovary,
2nd part, xii
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