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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. – Gustave Flaubert

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. – Gustave Flaubert

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It is possible to demonstrate Gods existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. – Thomas Aquinas

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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

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To me, as long as weve known each other, Ive always thought Micks most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance. – Keith Richards

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You musnt force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. – Mary McCarthy

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