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He could not keep himself from constantly touching her comb, her rings, her shawl; sometimes he would give her big smacking kisses on her cheeks or a row of little kisses all along her bare arm from the tips of her fingers up to the shoulder; & she would push him away, half smiling, half annoyed, as one treats a bothersome child.
Before she had married she thought she was in love...But the happiness that should have

As he was a newcomer to the area, he had taken special pains; & he brought for dessert with his own hands a layered cake that elicited loud hurrahs. The base was a square of blue cardboard representing a temple with porticos & colonnades, & there were stucco statuettes all around it in niches papered with gilded stars; then, on the second tier there was a turret of Savoy cake, surrounded by tiny fortifications...

Emma wanted to get married by torchlight at the unusual hour of midnight, but old man Rouault could not understand this notion at all. And so a wedding took place, to which 43 people came and sat at the table for 16 hrs. It began again the next day & continued to a lesser extent the following days.

Mademoiselle Emma,brought up in a convent of the Ursuline order,had received,as they say,a good education-as a result, she knew dancing, geography, drawing, tapestry weaving, & piano playing.It was just too much!
"So that's the reason he looks so radiant when he goes to see her",she told herself,"that's why he puts on his new waistcoat at the risk of soiling it in the rain.Oh, that woman! That woman!"

When Charles came home in the evening, she would extend her long thin arms out from under the sheets, twine them around his neck, & make him sit down on the edge of the bed in order to begin telling him her worries; he was forgetting her, he was in love with someone else! She had been rightly forewarned that she would be unhappy; & she would end by asking him for some medicine for her health & a bit more love.

The courses that were listed on the bulletin board terrified him: anatomy, pathology, physiology, pharmacology, chemistry, botany, clinical medicine, & therapy, not to mention hygiene & materia medica, all names of whose etymology he was ignorant & that loomed like majestic shadows in temple doors.
He undersood nothing. No matter how hard he listened, he just couldn't grasp the subject...

..but Monsieur Bovary, caring little about education, kept saying that none of this was worth the trouble. Would they ever have the money to support him in the government schools, buy him a post, or set him up in business? Besides, "IF a man has enough nerve, he'll always succeed in the world." Madame Bovary bit her lips, & the child wandered about the village..

A handsome, boastful fellow, jingling his spurs, with sideburns trimmed to meet his mustache, fingers always adorned with rings, & clothes in lively colors, he seemed to combine the looks of a warrior with the easygoing ways of a traveling salesman. After the marriage he lived on his wife's fortune for 2-3 yrs, eating well, sleeping late in the morning, smoking huge porcelain pipes...

X
Brihadaranyaka
THE SELF is the dearest of all things, & only through the Self is anything else dear. The Self is the origin of all finite happiness, but it is itself pure bliss, transcending definition. It remains unaffected by deeds, good or bad. It is beyond feeling & beyond knowledge, but it is not beyond the meditation of the sage.

IX
Chandogya
BRAHMAN is all. From Brahman come appearances, sensations, desires, deeds. But all these are merely name & form. To know Brahman one must experience the identity between him and the Self, or Brahman dwelling within the lotus of the heart. Only by so doing can man escape from sorrow & death & become one with the subtle esence beyond all knowledge.

VIII
Aitareya
BRAHMAN, source, sustenance, & end of the universe, partakes of every phase of existence. He wakes with the waking man, dreams with the dreamer, & sleeps the deep sleep of the dreamless sleeper; but he transcends these three states to become himself. His true nature is pure consciounsness.

VI
Mandukya
The life of man is divided between waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep. But transcending these three state is super-conscious vision-called The Fourth.

VII
Taittiriya
MAN, in his ignorance, identifies himself the material sheaths that encompass his true self. Transcending these, he becomes one with Brahman, who is pure bliss.

V
Mundaka
Since the manifold objects of sense are merely emanations of Brahman, to know them in themselves is not enough. Since all the actions of men are but phases of the universal process of creation, action alone is not enough.
The sage must distinguish between knowledge & wisdom. Knowledge is of things, acts, & relations. But wisdom is of Brahman alone; &, beyond all things, acts, & relations, he abides forever.

III
KENA
The power behind every activity of nature & of man is the power of Brahman. To realize this truth is to be immortal.

IV
PRASNA
Man is composed of such elements as vital breath, deeds, thought, & the senses-all of them deriving their being from the Self. They have come out of the Self, & in the Self they ultimately disappear-even as the waters of a river disappear in the sea.

II
ISHA
LIFE in the world & life in the spirit are not incompatible.Work,or action, is not contrary to knowledge of God,but indeed, if performed without attachment, is a means to it.On the other hand, renunciation is renunciation of the ego, of selfishness-not of life.The end, both of work & of renunciation, is to know the Self within & Brahman without, & to realize their identity.The Self is Brahman,& Brahman is all

Radiating from the lotus of the heart there are a hundred and one nerves. One of these ascends toward the thousand-petaled lotus in the brain. If, when a man comes to die, his vital force passes upward & out through this nerve, he attains immortality; but if his vital force passes out through another nerve, he goes to one or another plane of mortal existence & remains subject to birth & death

The man who has learned that the Self is separate from the body, the senses, & the mind, & has fully known him, the soul of truth, the subtle principle-such a man verily attains to him, and is exceeding glad, because he has found the source and dwelling place of all felicity. Truly do I believe, O Nachiketa, that for thee the gates of joy stand open.

I
Katha
The Secret of immortality is to be found in purification of the heart, in meditation, in realization of the identity of the Self within and Brahman without. For immortality is union with God.

171
This reason which seeks the way of bliss
Says again and again to you,
'Seize this moment which is yours:
You are not that herb which is cut down only to flourish anew.'

Magdelon: Oh Father, its a cruel trick they've played on us!

Gorgibus: Yes, its a cruel trick, but its a result of your impertinence, you wretches! They resented the treatment you gave them; & now I, for my sins, must swallow the affront.

Magdelon: Oh I swear that we shall be revenged, or I'll die in torment. & you, you rogues, do you dare stay here after your insolence?

Mascarille: Treat a marquis like that! ...

Before you & I did, night & day existed,
The revolving heavens were busy;
Where you set your foot on the face of the ground
Was the pupil of the eye of a sweetheart.

7
Neither you nor I know the mysteries of eternity,
Neither you nor I read this enigma;
You and I only talk this side of the veil;
When the veils fall, neither you nor I will be here.

Magdelon: We must receive him in this downstairs room rather than in our bedroom. Let's at least arrange our hair a bit & live up to our reputation. (To Marotte) Quick, come in here & tender us the counselor of the graces.

Marotte: My word, I don't know what sort of animal that is. You've got to talk Christian if you want me to understand you.

Cathos: Bring us the mirror, you ignoramus, & take good care not...

4
Oh heart you will not arrive at the solving of the riddle,
You will not reach the goal the wise in their subtlety seek;
Make do here with wine and the cup of bliss,
For you may and you may not arrive at bliss hereafter.

Toinette: Ignorantus, ignoranta, ignoratum. You must drink your wine straight; & to thicken your blood, which is too thin, you must eat good fat beef, good fat pork, good Holland cheese, gruel & rice, & chestnuts & wafers, to bind & conglutinate. Your doctor is an ass. I mean to send you one of my own choosing & I'll come & see you from time to time while I'm in town.

Let not sorrow wither the joyful heart
Nor stones of affliction wear away your season of happiness;
Nobody knows the hidden feature-
Wine, a lover and enjoying the heart's desire are all you need.

Monsieur Jourdain: Ah! The minuet is my dance, & I want you to see me dance it,(To the Dancing Master) Come on, Master.

Dancing Master: A hat, sir, if you please.(Monsieur Jourdain takes a Lackey’s hat & puts it on over his nightcap, removing it for the deep bows involved in the dance.The Dancing Master takes his hand, sings the music, & gives directions.) La, la, la; La, la, la, la, la, la; La, la, la, once again;

Music Master: Furthermore, sir, this is not enough. A person like you, who does things in a big way & who has an inclination for beautiful things, should give a concert at home every Wednesday or Thursday.
Monsieur Jourdain: Do people of quality have them?
Music Master: Yes, sir.
Monsieur Jourdain: Then I'll have some. Will it be good?
Music Master: Beyond a doubt. You'll need three voices...

5
If the heart could grasp the meaning of life,
In death it would know the mystery of God;
Today when you're in possession of yourself, you know nothing.
Tomorrow when you leave yourself behind, what will you know?

159
I was asleep, a wise man said to me:
'The rose of joy does not bloom for slumbers;
Why are you asleep? Sleep is the image of death,
Drink wine, below the ground you must sleep of necessity.'