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“Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.”
― La dame aux camélias
― La dame aux camélias
“Apoderarse de un corazón que no está acostumbrado a los ataques es entrar en una ciudad abierta y sin guarnición.”
― La Dama de las Camelias
― La Dama de las Camelias
“We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”
― La dame aux camélias
― La dame aux camélias
“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”
― La dame aux camélias
― La dame aux camélias
“Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting upon life from the sky, uprooting it, overwhelming the will, and sweeping the heart into the abyss. It did not occur to her that rain forms puddles on a flat roof when the drainpipes are clogged, and she would have continued to feel secure if she had not suddenly discovered a crack in the wall.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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