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L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

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
Eternal
Alone
Idea
Ideas
Necessary

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