Educaţia sentimentală

“He did not know what to do with his person.”

Frédéric spends his whole life waiting for his real life to start. He misses every actual moment because he is busy dreaming of a perfect one with Marie Arnoux.

“Most of the men who were there had served at least four governments.”

The revolution in the streets feels like a background noise to these characters. They care more about their dinner parties and secret crushes than the world falling apart.

“He felt that he was a man of some importance, and that he was going to live in a great city.”

Marie Arnoux is more of a statue than a person in Frédéric's head. He loves his own idea of her so much that he never really sees who she is.

“They all looked like each other.”

Small talk at these Parisian parties feels so familiar. Everyone is just trying to look smarter than the person next to them while saying absolutely nothing.