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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
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