Madame Bovary

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

"She was a victim of her own imagination."

"She had wanted to transcend her existence."

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

"Decorum is the mask that society wears."

"She was like a ship without a rudder."

"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom."

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

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

"Time softens all griefs and all joys."

"She sought revenge through beauty and charm."

"Every attempt at happiness is punished by fate."

"Knowledge is a burden that crushes the weak."

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

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

"She had wanted so much to be happy."

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

"The provincial mind is incapable of grandeur."

"What did it matter that she had been deceived in love?"

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

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

"The flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing."

"She exhausted herself with useless efforts."

"Religion is the opium of the people."

"He had the decency of habit."

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

"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live."

"Facts are more powerful than dreams."

"There is always something exasperating in the completeness of other people's happiness."

"She had read too many novels."