Madame Bovary

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Quotes from Madame Bovary

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"She lived for ecstasy and died for it."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Life
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"Love is the wound that never truly heals."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Love
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"The past haunts us more than the future promises."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Time
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"Why must we always want what we cannot have?"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Truth is often hidden beneath layers of self-deception."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Truth
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"She could not bear the weight of ordinary life."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Life
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"The soul withers when beauty departs."
Emma Bovary Beauty
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"Society's chains are often of our own forging."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Freedom
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"What we imagine is often more real to us than what exists."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Imagination
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"Fidelity is a virtue few possess and fewer value."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was always reaching for something beyond her grasp."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Hearts break silently, often unnoticed."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Relationships
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"The pursuit of happiness often leads to misery."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Happiness
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"Love demands everything or nothing."
Emma Bovary Love
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"She measured her life against novels rather than reality."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Imagination
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"Nothing is so destructive as illusion."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Wisdom
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"The written word often deceives us more than speech."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Literature
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"She was a woman of impossible desires."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Dreams
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"How often do our actions betray our intentions?"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Truth
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"Life teaches us through suffering."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Wisdom
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"She preferred passion to peace."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Love
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"One cannot escape one's own nature."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Philosophy
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"Words are the shadows of reality."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Truth
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"She was incapable of understanding contentment."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Happiness
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"The beautiful is only the beginning of the terrible."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Beauty
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"Mediocrity was her constant torment."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Life
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"She sought in marriage the happiness that love should bring."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Love
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"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator) Wisdom
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"One never knows what tomorrow may bring."
Charles Bovary Time
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"She had become tired of virtue."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)