EMMA BOVARY: The longer I live, the more clearly I feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment.
Sophie Barthes, Madame Bovary (2014), con Mia Wasikowska e Logan Marshall-Green
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Why could I not live and end my days thus? Just disposer of our joys and sorrows, cried I, why could not a man sit down in the lap of content here — and dance, and sing, and say his prayers? (Lawrence Sterne)
