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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Something
Hats
Uprooting
Love
Sent
Lightening
Life
Storm
Hurled
Like
Suddenly
Blinding
Heaven
Sweeping
Comes
Leafs
Feelings
Leaf
Every
Flash
Engulfing

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