I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
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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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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
- 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.
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- There is no truth. There is only perception.
- Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
- All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
- Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.