There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857) [full text]
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There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857) [full text]