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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
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