But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of Go…

Gustave Flaubert
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (1992). Madame Bovary: provincial lives, Penguin USA
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. ✨ Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (1992). Madame Bovary: provincial lives, Penguin USA

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