The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.
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 FlaubertDoesn'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 it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
Gustave Flaubert