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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
Writer
Flaubert
Something
Oneself
Believe
Feeling
Stupefaction
Always
Dies
Resign
Like
Difficult
Advent
Death
Comprehend
Feelings
Nothingness
Persons
Believing
Person
Unexpected

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