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."
"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."
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"