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.
("Madame Bovary")
More Quotes from Gustave Flaubert:
To see one's name in print Some people commit a crime for no other reason.Gustave Flaubert
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
Gustave Flaubert
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Gustave Flaubert
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
Gustave Flaubert
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Gustave Flaubert
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Emotions Quotes, Life Quotes, Love QuotesBased on Keywords: engulfing, heaven-sent, uprooting
I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.
Melissa Joan Hart
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
Crystal Chappell
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
Kenneth Burke