Madame Bovary

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Desire itself is not good or bad.

Because one cannot live without desire, even if it is just living itself, it is desire that supports it.

Human desires make people pursue something, seek spiritual greatness, seek material beauty, and seek romance in love.

But desires are different from person to person. Some people control their own desires and know where they are going, while some people are controlled by their desires. The enjoyment beyond her own ability will eventually usher in bad consequences, but this result requires her to pay with her life.

And a person who is controlled by desire will be swallowed up by desire sooner or later.

Therefore, although we pay for desires all our lives, we must be the masters of desires, not the slaves of desires. We must know that desires are hard to fill, and we can only try our best to get some of the most important things in our whole life.

And in the pursuit of those things you want most, you must do what you can, if you have a penny, do a penny, and if you have a penny, you will pay a penny. Otherwise, the desire beyond one's own ability may not be enough to make oneself into hell, but also cause others to suffer together and go to hell together.

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  • Emma Bovary: I realized that before getting married I was contemplating my coming life like a child. In a theater, um... sitting there in high spirits, and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It was a blessing in my early youth that I did not know what was really going to happen. When I look back now, it seems that I was like an innocent prisoner, condemned not to death, but to life, and as-yet unconscious of what the sentence meant. And the longer I live, the more clearly I feel that on a whole, life's a disappointment.

  • Monsieur Lheureux: This is going to be very expensive.

    Emma Bovary: You will extend me credit, will you not?

    Monsieur Lheureux: [slides fabric swatches toward her] Money should never be the problem - only the solution.