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The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. - Gustave Flaubert
" "The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
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About Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.
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