Quote by Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

"Everything immediately around her—the tedious country, the mediocre bourgeois, the mediocrity of existence—seemed to her an exception, an accident."

Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
Character in Madame Bovary
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