I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.