Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its... - Gustave Flaubert

"Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."

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

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

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

"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"