"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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"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
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