6 Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Dreams

Gustave Flaubert quotes on dreams

22. And now she could not bring herself to believe that the uneventful life she was leading was the happiness of which she had dreamed.

46. And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.

66. 'Ah!' she said, lifting her lovely tear-bright eyes to the ceiling. 'If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!'

74. A clear day's warmth will often move / A lass to stray in dreams of love

75. Often, when they spoke of Paris, she would murmur: 'Ah! How happy we'd be, living there!' 'Aren't we happy here?' the young would softly ask, passing his hand over her hair.

81. There isn't a bourgeois alive who in the ferment of his youth, if only for a day or for a minute, hasn't thought himself capable of boundless passions and noble exploits. The sorriest little woman-chaser has dreamed of Oriental queens; in a corner of every notary's heart lie the moldy remains of a poet.