"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 one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.“
-Gustave Flaubert
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