Reading all month

"

She loved the sea only for the sake of tempests, 

the meadow only as a background for some ruined pile. 

From everything she had to extract some kind of personal profit; 

and she discarded as useless anything that did not lend itself 

to her heart's immediate satisfaction — 

endowed with a temperament more sentimental than artistic, 

preferring emotions rather than landscapes.

"

Flaubert