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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Grows
Wing
Away
Regions
Young
Purity
Everything
Wings
Even
Somewhere
Like
Bird
Taking
Wished
Grow
Unbearable

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