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“For Madame Raquin, there was such a fathomless depth in this thought, that she could neither reason it out, nor grasp it clearly. She experienced but one sensation, that of a horrible disaster; it seemed to her that she was falling into a dark, cold hole. And she said to herself: “I shall be smashed to pieces at the bottom.”
― Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin