More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"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."
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"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."
"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."