quotes about Baudelaire
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.
-- Sophie Barthes