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Updated: June 17, 2025

Let me believe that the dead do not "search any more," and that they are at rest. We are sufficiently tormented on earth to be at rest when we are beneath it! Ah! How I envy you, how I long to have your serenity! To say nothing of the rest! and your two dear little girls, whom I embrace as tenderly as I do you. CCXCVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 7th September, 1875

Gustave Flaubert - The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters