Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country.
Unrealistic and unrealized opportunities circumvent the true potential that lies right in front of us. This preoccupation with the imagined world of projected emotive responses will damage our species for generations to come.
The added 'forme' is highly metaphysical. The implied meaning that I am insinuating almost 200 years after Charles Caleb Colton's death is partially Plutonic more-or-less Aristotelian; 'o sepi to poli'.
