More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."