Emma sought to learn what was meant in life by the words ‘happiness’, ‘passion’, and ‘intoxication’—words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.viShe had read Paul et Virginie and dreamed . . . most of all about the sweet friendship of some sweet brother who gathers ripe fruit for you in huge trees taller than steeples or who runs barefoot over the sand, bringing you a bird’s nest.
-Gustave Flaubert
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