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

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

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"

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

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"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."