More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"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."