Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cann... - Gustave Flaubert

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

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."