domingo, dezembro 03, 2017

Tão antigo, e mesmo assim mantém-se tão (tristemente) verdadeiro

"Assurance depends on one's surroundings. (...) The wealthy woman seems to have all her bank-notes about her to defend her virtue, like so much armour-plate inside the lining of her bodice"

(Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1857)

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