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

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

"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."

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

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