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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran fro — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignom — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acqui — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over t — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your tho — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a fl — Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever expre — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary