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Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Deceive
Deceiving
Resist
Blame
Marriage
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Women

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