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:: Thursday, October 14, 2004 ::

sentimental education

Although I haven't read this one yet, I remember this striking reference to the author's ending in Sentimental Education:

Flaubert believed that anticipation was the purest form of pleasure. And the most reliable. And that while the things that actually happened to you would invariably disappoint, the things that never happened to you would never dim, never fade. They'd always be engraved on your heart with sort of a sweet sadness to them.

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