Gustave Flaubert: Herring

Gustave Flaubert was French writer (1821–1880). Explore interesting quotes on herring.
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“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Bird , Flying

“But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Life , God , Future

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Sex , Nature

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Pain , Disappointment , Success , Heart

“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Universe

“She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Marriage

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Love , Life , Feeling

“She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Life

“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

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Life , Heart