More quotes by 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."
"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."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"