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We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
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Flaubert
Suicide
Madness
Beautiful
Swung
Depression
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