marriage thought love grasp; since happiness expected love bring hadn’ — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” – words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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