One can be the master of what one does, but never of what on... - Gustave Flaubert

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

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."

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