"Shining Secrets"

Quote

Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

– Gustave Flaubert (via planb-becomeapirate)

(Source: writingquotes)

 Via My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning
  1. ducksmakeitbetter reblogged this from my-ear-trumpet
  2. roselerner reblogged this from oliviawaite and added:
    Oh, Flaubert. I am fond of him because he’s a little ridiculous but in a precious way. Look at this, talking about his...
  3. lenacorazon reblogged this from my-ear-trumpet
  4. marcelosousa reblogged this from my-ear-trumpet
  5. sa-lads reblogged this from my-ear-trumpet
  6. oliviawaite reblogged this from my-ear-trumpet
  7. maisondedemence reblogged this from my-ear-trumpet
  8. my-ear-trumpet reblogged this from planb-becomeapirate
  9. longdistancewinner reblogged this from planb-becomeapirate
  10. postmodernismruinedme reblogged this from planb-becomeapirate
  11. planb-becomeapirate reblogged this from writingquotes
  12. writingquotes posted this
To Tumblr, Love PixelUnion