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Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.

Sophie Barthes
Mean, Reality, Good Enough
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Flaubert's famous sentence, Madame Bovary, c'est moi (Madame Bovary, she is me), in reality means, Madame Bovary, c'est nous (Madame Bovary, she is us), in our modern incapacity to live a good-enough life.