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."

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

"You don’t make art out of good intentions."

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

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."