To please women you either have to be carefree and play the fool or else be tragic and passionate. When you say to them quite simply that you love them, women laugh at you.

Pour plaire aux femmes, il faut etaler une insouciance de bouffon ou des fureurs de tragedie! Elles se moquent de nous quand on leur dit qu'on less aime, simplement!

Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education

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Topic

Men and women

Speaker

Frederic Moreau

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Sentimental Education

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. L'Education sentimentale [Sentimental Education]. Paris: Michel Levy, 1869, pt. 3, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 3, ch. 3.

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Current Citation

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