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Madame Bovary (1856)
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Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place.
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She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.
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Iced champagne was served, and the feel of the cold wine in her mouth gave Emma a shiver that ran over her from head to toe.
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We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off in our hands.
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I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
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No one can ever state the exact measure of his needs, nor his ideas nor his sorrows.
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There was an air of indifference about them [the male guests], a calm produced by the gratification of every passion. that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.
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Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
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Our duty is to feel what is great and love what is beautiful — not to accept all the social conventions and the infamies they impose on us.
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She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her.
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She [Madame Bovary] had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success— a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Gustave Flaubert
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Born:
December 12, 1821
Died:
May 8, 1880
(aged 58)
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