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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to 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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Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
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May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
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Prose is like hair it shines with combing.
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I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all
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