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[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and 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 #music #speech #love

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.


Joyce Maynard


#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.


Daniel Nayeri


#madame-vileroy #useless #change

The poignant words that Mme Duruflé addressed to one of her American students, saddened that his year's study with her had come to an end, were as apropos at the time of her death: 'Oh no, don't be sad. We have played the prelude to a friendship; we have all of life for the fugue.


James E. Frazier


#maurice-durufle #death

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)


Stephen Clarke


#bed #cannonball #cartoon #cartwheel #ceiling

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.


Gustave Flaubert


#madame-bovary #love

She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.


Gustave Flaubert


#love

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?


Peter Washington


#belief-system #madame-blavatsky-s-baboon #mystic #mysticism #religion

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.


Ernest Hemingway


#death #end #enough #far #keep






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