“Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it grew up here and there among ruins. She needed to derive from things a sort of personal gain; and she rejected as useless everything that did not contribute to the immediate gratification of her heart, — being by temperament more sentimental than artistic, in search of emotions and not landscapes.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.”
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“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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