“ She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes. ”
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856). copy citation
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1856
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Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling