More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."