More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"