Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
("Madame Bovary")
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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.Gustave Flaubert
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all the more. Vivacious, effusive, and very loving in the early days, over the years she had, like a stale wine that turns to vinegar, grown ill-humoured, waspish, and nervy.
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