Poor human weakness! With your words, your languages, your sounds, you speak and stammer—you define God, the heaven and the earth, chemistry and philosophy, and you cannot express, with your language,...
One thinks of nothing, he continued; the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of...
On the Place she met Lestivoudois on his way back, for, in order not to shorten his day's labour, he preferred interrupting his work, then beginning it again, so that he rang the Angelus to suit his o...
Les haines foisonnaient : haine contre les instituteurs primaires et contre les marchands de vin, contre les classes de philosophie, contre les cours d'histoire, contre les romans, les gilets rouges,...
L'action, pour certains hommes, est d'autant plus impraticable que le désir est plus fort. La méfiance d'eux-mêmes les embarrasse, la crainte de déplaire les épouvante; d’ailleurs, les affections prof...
It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
In spite of her giddy airs (the phrase used by the bourgeois wives of Yonville), Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the f...
Il voulait qu'elle se donnât, et non la prendre.
I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator, whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfil our duties as citizens and fathers of families; but I don't need to go to church...
And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
But now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks throug...
Votre personne, vos moindres mouvements, me semblaient avoir dans le monde une importance extra-humaine. Mon coeur, comme de la poussière, se soulevait derrière vos pas. Vous me faisiez l'effet d'un c...
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Život koji sam potiskivao u sebe stisnuo se u srce i stezao ga da ga zadavi.
The more flowery a person’s speech … the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed.
The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice—