Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the... - 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."
More quotes by Gustave Flaubert
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"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."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
"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."