I thought of nothing else

"My heart was like dust under your feet."

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This sentence comes from Sentimental Education, a novel by Gustave Flaubert.

Looked it up because in the movie Manhattan, Woody Allen mentions it on his list of reasons why life is "worth living" -- along with Groucho Marx and "Potato Head Blues"....

------------------------------------ [excerpt, Sentimental Education]---  "...My heart was like dust under your feet. 

You produced on me the effect of moonlight on a summer's night,

when around us we find nothing but perfumes, soft shadows, gleams of whiteness, infinity; and all the delights of the flesh and of the spirit were for me embodied in your name, which I kept repeating to myself while I tried to kiss it with my lips. 

I thought of nothing else. 

It was Madame Arnoux such as you were with your two children, tender, grave, dazzlingly beautiful, and yet so good!  This image effaced every other.  Did I not dream of it alone? for always, in the very depths of my soul, were

the music of your voice and the brightness of your eyes!"-------------------------- [end excerpt]

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Isaac Davis {Woody Allen} in Manhattan:
Why is life worth living?
It's a very good question.
Well -- there are certain things, I guess, that make it worthwhile -- like what...okay...um...For me, I would say...what, Groucho Marx, to name one thing...and Willie Mays -- and the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony.

Louis Armstrong, recording of Potato Head Blues.
Swedish movies, naturally.
Sentimental Education by Flaubert....Marlon Brando.  Frank Sinatra.  Those incredible apples and pears by Cezanne....
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"My heart was like dust under your feet."

My dust was like footprints on your hat.

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