Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...
("Madame Bovary")
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been spent in the dark back-room of a shop in some town, she would now perhaps have been kindled by the lyric surgings of nature which only normally reach us as through the interpretation of a writer.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
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