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Letter to George Sand Gustave Flaubert (June 12, 1867)

I'm swooning, it A week ago, before an encampment of Gypsies who had settled in Rouen. This is the third time that I see. And always with renewed pleasure. The admirable is that they incited hatred of the bourgeoisie, although harmless like sheep. I made myself very unpopular with the crowd giving them some land. And I heard some nice words to Prudhomme. This hate-there is something very deep and complex. It is found in all people of order. It is the hatred that is the Bedouin, the heretic, the philosopher, the hermit, the poet. And there is fear in this hatred. I who am always for minorities, it infuriates me. From the day I am no longer angry, I will fall flat, like a doll that removal of his stick.
Gustave Flaubert Letter to George Sand, Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert, Letter to George Sand, June 12, 1867, ed. the Pleiades, Volume 5, pp. 653-654.