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When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.


Gustave Moreau

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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of th...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passio...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ou...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all th...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure i...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corri...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous tu...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she c...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she ke...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skie...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailo...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so th...
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