She put him near the front door and a number of visitors were surprised that he would not answer to the name 'Polly', which is what all parrots were supposed to be called.
Gustave FlaubertSuch killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.
Gustave FlaubertSurely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk.
Gustave FlaubertEngland and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.
Gustave FlaubertOne thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
Gustave FlaubertTags: reading books emotions feelings adventures madame-bovary
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Gustave FlaubertI detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life
Gustave FlaubertDesiderava al tempo stesso morire e vivere a Parigi.
Gustave FlaubertTags: french-literature gustave-flaubert madame-bovary
To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life as one writes history or the epic (without denaturing the subject) is perhaps an absurdity. That's what I wonder sometimes. But perhaps it's also a grand undertaking and very original!
Gustave FlaubertBourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one. He amuses the public with his afflictions.
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