Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.
She only wished to lean on something more solid than love.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.
Prima di sposarsi, Emma aveva creduto d'amare; ma la felicità che avrebbe dovuto nascere dal quell'amore non era venuta, e pensava che doveva essersi sbagliata. Ella cercava ora, di sapere che cosa vo...
Ponekad mi se vaše reči vraćaju u svest kao daleki odjek, kao zvuk zvona koji donosi vetar; i čini mi se da ste tu, kraj mene, kad u knjigama čitam odlomke koji govore o ljubavi.
Love, she believed, must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightening - a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carr...
Les cœurs des femmes sont comme ces petits meubles à secret, pleins de tiroirs emboîtés les uns dans les autres ; on se donne du mal, on se casse les ongles, et on trouve au fond quelque fleur desséch...
Leon at once envied the calm of the tomb, and one evening he had even made his will, asking to be buried in that beautiful rug with velvet stripes he had received from her. For this was how they would...
Je voudrais bien être mystique ; il doit y avoir de belles voluptés à croire au paradis, à se noyer dans des flots d'encens, à s'anéantir au pied de la Croix, . . . c'est une belle chose que l'autel c...
It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dwell in thought upon noble characters, pure affections, and pictures of happiness.
Io ho una religione, la mia religione, ne ho anche più di tutti loro, con le loro buffonate e i loro imbrogli! Anzi, io Dio l’adoro! Credo nell’Essere supremo, in un Creatore, uno qualunque, chi sia n...
In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers...
Il y avait des chênes rugueux, énormes, qui se convulsaient, s'étiraient du sol, s'étreignaient les uns les autres, et, fermes sur leurs troncs, pareils à des torses, se lançaient avec leurs bras nus...
I touched her comb and took it out; her hair came flooding down like a wave, and her long black tresses quivered as they fell to her hips. I immediately ran my hand over it, and in it, and beneath it;...
He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this quiet taste in dress, these relaxed, dove like postures. He ma...
Halbuki bir erkeğin her şeyi bilmesi, birçok sahalarda elinden iş gelmesi, kadına ihtirasın kudretlerini, zarafet içinde yaşamayı, bütün sırların inceliklerini öğretmesi lazım değil mi? Bunun ise bir...
Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting t...
Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt their thoughts, hardly have they scribbled their ideas...