Before marriage she thought hserself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.Gustave Flaubert
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She was very happy in the beginning, but she thought that it could not last. When her love ended she was devastated. Why did it have to end? Just because two people are in love does not mean that their relationship will last forever. Maybe because there are other people around or maybe because her partner didn't want to commit. The important thing is that true love was there and that the person she loved truly loved her back.
Source: Madame Bovary
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