"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 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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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
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"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
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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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"There is no truth. There is only perception."
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