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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Gustave Flaubert
Boredom, Metaphor
Gustave Flaubert (2005). “November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style”, Hesperus Press

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Gustave Flaubert
Boredom, Goal, Principal
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.113, Harvard University Press

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert
Heart, Blessing, Boredom
Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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