Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Dreams
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And now she could not bring herself to believe that the uneventful life she was leading was the happiness of which she had dreamed.
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And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.
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'Ah!' she said, lifting her lovely tear-bright eyes to the ceiling. 'If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!'
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A clear day's warmth will often move / A lass to stray in dreams of love
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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.
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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.