Maddy

“Thy chastity is but a more subtle form of corruption, and thy contempt of this world is but the impotence of thy hatred against it.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony

“They took the train one day from the northern railway-station of the world... Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station, one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia, for the perhaps still living traces of Raoul and Christine and also of Mamma Valerius, who disappeared at the same time!... Possibly, some day, I shall hear the lonely mountains of the north echo the singing of her who knew the Angel of Music!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Shake the vermin from thy rags! Rise up from thy filth! Thy god is not a moloch who demands human flesh in sacrifice!”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony

“One need not possess joys in order to taste their bitterness! Even to view them from afar off begets loathing of them. Thou must be fatigued by the monotony of the same actions, the length of the days, the hideousness of the world, the stupidity of the sun?”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony