Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary (№ 143579)

In their indifferent attitudes reflected the calm that is achieved daily appeasement of passions, and through the softness of their movements showed that special brutality which awakens in man the dominion over creatures, not quite submissive to him, developing his strength and Tesha his ego, whether it be riding thoroughbred horses in or Association with immoral women.