Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the... - Gustave Flaubert

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."