More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"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."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"