Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the a... - Gustave Flaubert

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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