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                                                       April 6, 2003

 Gustave Flaubert to George Sand, 
 November 27th, 1866:  


     Woman, for all the members of my sex, is a
     groined archway opening on the infinite.  



                           -- page 429 of
                              "Lélia, The Life of Geroge Sand"
                              by André Maurois
                              (translated by Gerard Hopkins)
                              (1954) Harper
                                           
                              Originally from:
                              "Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance" 
                              Volume V, pp. 274  




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