Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

"Facts are more powerful than dreams."

"The greater the despair, the greater the hope."

"He had the decency of habit."

"Religion is the opium of the people."

"She exhausted herself with useless efforts."

"Love is a disease that must be cured with indifference."

"She was not made for the life she was living."

"Passion does not last; it is replaced by habit and indifference."

"She had wanted so much to be happy."

"The heart refuses to accept what the mind rejects."

"She was like a woman who has tasted a forbidden fruit."

"Knowledge is a burden that crushes the weak."

"She sought revenge through beauty and charm."

"Time softens all griefs and all joys."

"The present is always unbearable; the past is always regretted; the future is always feared."

"She had read of passionate loves in the books."

"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom."

"She was like a ship without a rudder."

"Decorum is the mask that society wears."

"Everything that is beautiful must be paid for with suffering."

"She had wanted to transcend her existence."

"She was a victim of her own imagination."

"Happiness is a mirage that disappears as one approaches it."

"She was not happy, and never had been happy"

"Desire had evaporated like water on hot stone"

"The heart, like fruit, ripens in darkness"

"She felt herself drowning in the banality of existence"

"Love is but an exchange of fantasies and the rubbing of bodies"

"She had read too many novels and too little of life itself"

"Reality disappoints those who expect too much from it"