More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."