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“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

—Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

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-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

I’ve read this line translated in a couple different ways and, regardless of the wording, this line always brings a bit of lady humor to the reader.

“Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.”

—Gustave Flaubert

#frases

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.”

—Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris." ”

—Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

—Gustave Flaubert

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

—Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

#lit

“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”

—Gustave Flaubert

““What could be better, really, than to sit by the fire in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the windowpanes, and the lamp burns?…””

—Léon Dupuis, in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”.”

—Gustave Flaubert

“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. ”

—Gustave Flaubert

“Si può essere padroni di ciò che si fa, ma mai di ciò che si prova.”

—G. Flaubert

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“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.”

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris." ”

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

““What could be better, really, than to sit by the fire in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the windowpanes, and the lamp burns?…””

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”.”

“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. ”

“Si può essere padroni di ciò che si fa, ma mai di ciò che si prova.”

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“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.”

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris." ”

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

“&#8220;What could be better, really, than to sit by the fire in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the windowpanes, and the lamp burns?&#8230;&#8221;”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”.”

“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. ”

“Si può essere padroni di ciò che si fa, ma mai di ciò che si prova.”

““What could be better, really, than to sit by the fire in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the windowpanes, and the lamp burns?…””