“The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed”
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“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
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