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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – 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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. – Robert Frost

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I dont think I am evangelical in my work. – J. K. Rowling

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In my heart, Im an Alabaman who went up north to work. – E. O. Wilson

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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. – Paul Cezanne

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