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."
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"