More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"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."