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My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Life
Stupid
Like
Turn
Everybody
Turns
Monotonous
Else
Poetic
Beautiful
Sensible
Dream
Vast
Love
Filled

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