More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
"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."