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- My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
- The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
- The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
- The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror
- There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
- As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few…
- In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for…
- As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one…
- Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of…
- Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
- And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a…
- After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
- 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…
- … Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like…
- She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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