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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic lo

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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