To be simple is no small matter. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2010). Madame Bov…

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To be simple is no small matter. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (2010). Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.7, Penguin
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (1967). Intimate notebook, 1840-1841
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (1993). Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life, Everyman's Libra … ▶
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

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