“ Ah! no woman has ever been loved as I have been. No! Where is the use in being young? What do I care about them, indeed? I despise them—all those women who come here! ”
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education (1869). copy citation
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
|---|---|
| Source | Sentimental Education |
| Topic | love women |
| Date | 1869 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27537/27537-h/27537-h.htm |
Context
“"The sight of your foot makes me lose my self-possession."
An impulse of modesty made her rise. Then, without any further movement, she said, with the strange intonation of a somnambulist:
"At my age!—he—Frederick! Ah! no woman has ever been loved as I have been. No! Where is the use in being young? What do I care about them, indeed? I despise them—all those women who come here! "Oh! very few women come to this place," he returned, in a complaisant fashion. [321]
Her face brightened up, and then she asked him whether he meant to be married.
He swore that he never would.
"Are you perfectly sure?” source
An impulse of modesty made her rise. Then, without any further movement, she said, with the strange intonation of a somnambulist:
"At my age!—he—Frederick! Ah! no woman has ever been loved as I have been. No! Where is the use in being young? What do I care about them, indeed? I despise them—all those women who come here! "Oh! very few women come to this place," he returned, in a complaisant fashion. [321]
Her face brightened up, and then she asked him whether he meant to be married.
He swore that he never would.
"Are you perfectly sure?” source
