More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"