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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."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Love, Work, Hair

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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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