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

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

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

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

"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."