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Sentimental Education

 Gustave Flaubert
 

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1. A man like Deslauriers was worth all the women in the world.
 
 
2. Frédéric had expected to feel paroxysms of joy; but passions wilt when they are transplanted, and, finding Madame Arnoux in a setting which was unfamiliar to him, he had the impression that she had somehow lost something, suffered a vague degradation, in short, that she had changed. The calm of his heart astounded him.
 
 
3. Women's hearts were like those desks full of secret drawers that fit one inside another; you struggle with them, you break your fingernails, and at the bottom you find a withered flower, a little dust, or nothing at all! Perhaps he was afraid too of finding out too much.
 
 
5. They had both failed, one to realize his dreams of love, the other to fulfill his dreams of power. What was the reason?
   “Perhaps it's because we didn't steer a straight course,” said Frédéric.
   “That may be true in your case. I, on the other hand, was far too rigid in my line of conduct . . . I was too logical, and you were too sentimental.”
   Then they blamed chance, circumstances, the times into which they were born.
 
 
 
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