More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."
"Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."
"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."
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"