“Art has, at its core, a highly individual, stubborn regard for truth. And only a few truths are pretty.”
Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
“The eternal monotony of passion.”
Mary Garth in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
“Having early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged to her satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact.”