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Madame Bovary Quotes

And now she could not bring herself to believe that the uneventful life she was leading was the happiness of which she had dreamed. - Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary Quotes)

And now she could not bring herself to believe that the uneventful life she was leading was the happiness of which she had dreamed.[Et elle ne pouvait s’imaginer à présent que ce calme où elle vivait fût le bonheur qu’elle avait rêvé.]

Source:(Modern Library, ed. 1957), Part I, Chapter VI, Page 45
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Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary Quotes)
  • Book: Madame Bovary
  • Writer: Gustave Flaubert
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1856
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