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“It wasn't the first time in their lives that they had seen trees, blue sky and lawn, or heard the flowing of water or the rustle of the breeze in the branches, but never before, certainly, had they looked on it all with such wonder: it was as though nature had not existed before, or had only begun to be beautiful with the slaking of their desires.”

“She longed to travel; she longed to go back and live in the convent. She wanted to die. And she wanted to live in Paris.”

“She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things; and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification-for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.”