The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: onl…

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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. ✨ Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 10
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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. ✨ Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 10

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