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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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