Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.
Gustave FlaubertI hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Gustave FlaubertOne must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
Gustave FlaubertRemembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two weeks ago...three weeks ago, I was there!' And, little by little, in her memory, the faces all blurred together; she forgot the tunes of the quadrilles; no longer could she so clearly picture the liveries and the rooms; some details disappeared, but the yearning remained.
Gustave Flaubert