More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"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."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."