More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."