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Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas QUOTES

1 " Sometimes they opened a book and closed it again; what was the point? On other days they had the idea of tidying up the garden, but after a quarter of an hour they felt tired; or of looking at their farm, but they came back sick at heart; or doing household jobs, but Germaine cried out in protest; they gave up. "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas

2 " However, all this reading had disturbed their brains. "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas

3 " The more ideas they had the more they suffered. "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas

4 " It was during the summer of 1845, in the garden, under the arbour, Pécuchet, with his feet up on a small seat, was reading aloud in his booming voice, tirelessly, only stopping to dip his fingers into his snuff-box. Bouvard was listening to him, pipe in mouth, legs apart, the top of his trousers undone. "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas

5 "    Two men appeared.
   One came from the Bastille, the other from the Jardin des Plantes. The taller of the two, in a linen costume, walked with his hat pushed back, waistcoat undone and cravat in hand. The smaller one, whose body was enveloped in a brown frock-coat, had a peaked cap on his bent head.
   When they came to the middle of the boulevard they both sat down at the same moment on the same seat.
   Each took off his hat to mop his brow and put it beside him; and the smaller man noticed, written inside his neighbour's hat, Bouvard; while the latter easily made out the word Pécuchet, in the cap belonging to the individual in the frock-coat. "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas

6 "  Bouvard thought: 'Ah, progress, what a farce!' He added: 'And politics, what a filthy mess!'  "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas

7 " Bouvard and Pécuchet put forward their abominable paradoxes on other occasions. They cast doubt on the honesty of men, the chastity of women, the intelligence of the government, the good sense of the people, in a word undermined the basic principles. "

― Gustave Flaubert , Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas