Quotes From "Sentimental Education" By Gustave Flaubert

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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. Gustave Flaubert
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The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go to a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness! Gustave Flaubert
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Frederick expected that he would have felt spasms of joy; but the passions grow pale when we find ourselves in an altered situation; and, as he no longer saw Madame Arnoux in the environment wherein he had known her, she seemed to him to have lost some of her fascination; to have degenerated in some way that he could not comprehend–in fact, not to be the same. He was astonished at the serenity of his own heart. © Project Gutenberg /.. sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.. . Gustave Flaubert
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Frederick expected that he would have felt spasms of joy; but the passions grow pale when we find ourselves in an altered situation; and, as he no longer saw Madame Arnoux in the environment wherein he had known her, she seemed to him to have lost some of her fascination; to have degenerated in some way that he could not comprehend–in fact, not to be the same. He was astonished at the serenity of his own heart./.. sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.. Gustave Flaubert
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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate. Gustave Flaubert