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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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Flaubert
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Long
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Anything

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But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Everything is there: the love of Art.
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DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
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