" This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain. "

― Gustave Flaubert , The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert George Sand: Flaubert - Sand