"Sentimental Education" Quotes

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl it is boldness.

They would be able to love each other better if there were less strenuousness in their love-making.

Dreams grow wild on reality's shores.

His feeling was a mixture of pride and depression. He would have liked to be more than he was and less unhappy.

She talked to him with the diffidence that he found so attractive, obeying her natural inclination to hide her feelings.

What supreme happiness it is in those rare moments of life to say to oneself: 'I can.'

She was his hope, his uncertainty, his misplaced dreams.

He knew suffering was inevitable but could not believe it could last.

Sometimes reality is as great as the most enviable dream.