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

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

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."

"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 are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."