"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 artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
-Gustave Flaubert
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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."
-Gustave Flaubert
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
-Gustave Flaubert
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"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
-Gustave Flaubert
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"There is no truth. There is only perception."
-Gustave Flaubert
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-Jim Fowler
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
-Boris Kodjoe
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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