More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"
"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."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"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."