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.
Gustave FlaubertBefore her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadnโt come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words โbliss,โ โpassion,โ and โraptureโ - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
Gustave FlaubertWhat seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
Gustave Flaubert