More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"