That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
Gustave FlaubertNothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave FlaubertThought is the greatest of pleasures โpleasure itself is only imaginationโhave you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Gustave FlaubertI am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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 Flaubert