Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. - Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary Quotes)

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They’re a refuge from life’s disillusionments.[Il est si doux, parmi les désenchantements de la vie, de pouvoir se reporter en idée sur de nobles caractères, des affections pures et des tableaux de bonheur.]

Source:(Modern Library, ed. 1957), Part II, Chapter II, Page 95
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