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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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